How to start my desktop manager (Installed without one)

[blazemore]

I installed Debian without a desktop environment.

I then downloaded, compiled, and installed Openbox.

My question is how do I run it? StartX doesn't work, and I don't even know if X is installed.

Might be a stupid question but can anyone help?

[sebbss]

What does it tell you when you type startx?

[eriqjaffe]

My question is how do I run it? StartX doesn't work, and I don't even know if X is installed.If you installed a command-line system and didn't explicitly install xorg through apt-get, then it's not installed.


sudo apt-get install xorg
sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
startx

...should sort you out.