On 1/8/2014 17:00, Mark LaPierre wrote: > On 01/07/2014 08:27 PM, Warren Young wrote: >> (I'm trying to set up a CUPS server. So yeah, X11 is a prerequisite for >> installing a printer now. Lovely.) > > How about using http://localhost:631 with lynx or some other such text > based browser. I ended up writing a 2-line .xinitrc file to solve this problem: xterm & exec metacity This at least lets me temporarily "shell into X," as it were. This works because I've got enough of X and GNOME installed that I can get the GUI up and run programs, but the GNOME desktop proper isn't yet completely functional.