Timeline for What is the default GUI run with "startx" without any desktop environment installed?
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| Nov 14, 2014 at 1:48 | comment | added | Celada | @xiver77 Ah, I see. For that, you can just run Firefox in the background like so: firefos & and your shell prompt will return while Firefox displays in another window at the same time. | |
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| Nov 14, 2014 at 0:01 | comment | added | user219627 | I see! It seems that my OS is running a terminal emulator. What I meant by "multitasking didn't seem to be possible" is that if I run "firefox" for example, It runs just as if typing "firefox" in Xterm of Linux GUI mode. So the terminal simply waits until the running program terminates. | |
| Nov 13, 2014 at 23:44 | history | answered | Celada | CC BY-SA 3.0 |