Wrong. They use Slashdot.

P.S. the editors will be punished by GOD for their actions...

you need to make a .xinitrc file (and chmod +x it), or change your system's xinitrc file to load a window manager. look in /etc/X11 or in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11, i think.

these are scripts that get executed by startx, after X loads.