The xinit package contains a usable script to start the xserver.
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Download (HTTP): https://www.x.org/pub/individual/app/xinit-1.4.2.tar.xz
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Estimated disk space required: 1.5 MB
Estimated build time: less than 0.1 SBU
twm-1.0.12, xclock-1.1.1, and xterm-389 (used in the default xinitrc
file)
Install xinit by running the following commands:
./configure $XORG_CONFIG --with-xinitdir=/etc/X11/app-defaults && make
This package does not come with a test suite.
Now, as the root
user:
make install && ldconfig
If starting Xorg from the command line, the default instructions above start Xorg on the current virtual terminal. It may be convenient to see Xorg and associated application messages on the current virtual terminal, normally tty1, and start the graphical environment on the first available unused virtual terminal, normally tty7. To do this, set the suid bit on the Xorg application as the root
user:
chmod u+s $XORG_PREFIX/bin/Xorg
At this point you can start Xorg on virtual terminal 7 with startx <client arguments> -- vt7. Now you can toggle between tty1 and tty7 with the Ctrl-Alt-F1 and Ctrl-Alt-F7 key combinations.
To automatically start Xorg on the first available virtual terminal, modify the startx script as the root
user with:
sed -i '/$serverargs $vtarg/ s/serverargs/: #&/' $XORG_PREFIX/bin/startx
After this change, the virtual terminal does not need to be specified on the startx command line.