installing red hat 7.1

[Ben Pfaff]

"Joshua S. Chulski" <jchulski@yahoo.com> writes:

> X is being started at the command prompt "startx".
> 
> There is a background, but it is gray.  Icons are visible on the left
> hand side, but they are black--their shapes are the only distinguishable
> feature.  I can see the clock perfectly in the right lower corner.
> 
> That is all there there is on a screen.

Try the starting it up with the command
	startx `which xterm`
(Note the two backticks or grave accents `.)  If all goes well,
you should see an xterm in the upper-left corner of the screen
and a gray background in the rest.  You should be able to execute
commands in the xterm.  Does this work?
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