Configure X

The next thing you'll probably want is a graphical user interface, which is what most people are comfortable with. So let's being emerging xwindows, which will provide a framework you can extend with a desktop manager.

$ sudo emerge -av xorg-server eselect

There shold be a lot of packages that get installed with X, so feel free to go have a coffee. After the emerge has finished, we now need to configure xorg. First, lets update our environment.

$ sudo env-update && source /etc/profile

Now lets create our xorg.conf file.

$ sudo Xorg -configure

follow the questions you are asked to generate a default xorg.conf. You can edit the generated file if you wish

$ sudo nano -w /etc/X11/xorg.conf