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The downloads page indicates that this image includes LXDE, but I'm having trouble enabling it.

Alex Chamberlain
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ramblinjan
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    Most people that use lightweight systems have go script. They just run it when their computer boots up or logs in, and it starts all the GUI and other services. – Andrew Larsson Jun 13 '12 at 16:05

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When you've logged in, just type startx on the terminal, then it should fire right up.

berry120
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To have the GUI run automatically when you boot your Pi, you'll need to install something like GDM (sudo apt-get install gdm - this is next on my list, probably this evening). Then to get to a text-only terminal, press <Ctrl>-<Alt>-<F1> through <F6>; and <Alt>-<F7> to return to X.

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Gnome

You will need to install aptitude and tasksel before install gnome

Aptitude is an Ncurses based FrontEnd to Apt, the debian package manager.

Tasksel is a tool that installs multiple related packages as a co-ordinated “task” onto your system.

# apt-get install aptitude tasksel

Install gnome on debian

# tasksel install gnome-desktop --new-install

LXDE

minimum set of elements

# apt-get install lxde-core

complete set of elements

# apt-get install lxde

complete Debian LXDE desktop environment

# apt-get install task-lxde-desktop

You can choose more GUI from http://namhuy.net/1085/install-gui-on-debian-7-wheezy.html

Regina Thompson
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