Hello Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Can I switch to another virtual terminal and start X Windows while I've > got something else going on in the first vterm, such as a download or a > dselect session, etc?
Yes. > And if I can, once I'm in X, how do I then get back to where I can see how > the download is progressing? Do I just Ctrl-Alt-F[key] back to the > original vterm, Yes and yes. One nice thing you might like to do is set the environment variable DISPLAY to the value :0 in your original vterm - then you can start X programs from there. (I set it in my .login file.) > or can I bring up the process in an Xterm or something similar? No. Except, hmm, I don't know how you would do that. You might be able to take the /dev/ttyXX from the vt and put it in an xterm. But in general, no. The program runs where it's started. If it's an X program, it looks at the DISPLAY variable and shows up there. HTH Jiri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
