user these keys at the same time. <ctrl><alt><backspace> --- "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgive an amateur... > > When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 > box, and I like to have > X running so I can run applications like Evolution, > Mozilla, and so on. > > When I'm on the road (which I am far too often for > my job), I use a > Windows XP laptop, and I log into my desktop > computer remotely with SSH, > and use Squirrelmail to check my personal e-mail. > > As I understand it, I certainly don't need X running > to make IMAP, > Apache, SSHD, or any of the other remote programs I > run work. But X can > be a major resource hog, and slows things down when > I'm logging in > remotely. > > Is there an easy and painless way I can shut down X > before I leave on > business trips, and start it back up again when I'm > at home, without > having to reboot the machine? I'm using GNOME 2.0 > as my windowing > environment, if that's important. I imagine for > those odd times when I > need an X application while on the road, I can log > in to my computer > from Cygwin and start X remotely. > > -- > Slainte, > Richard S. Crawford > AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 > http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com > "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. > What is essential > is > invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery > > > >
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