On Friday 28 March 2003 01:07 pm, Richard S. Crawford wrote: <snip> > 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. Correct
> 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. What you can do is switch to init level 3, or make the computer boot to init level 3 instead of init level 5. Init level 3 will only gives you terminal access and let you login from terminal (eg TTY 1). When you need X, just type $> startx when you exits gnome (or whatever desktop you're running) and X, it will give you back terminal. You can also kill X using CTRL-Backspace. But for now, if you'r computer booted to init level 5, I think you need to switch to init level 3 to kill X. CTRL-Backspace will only restart X if you're in init level 5 (someone correct me if I am wrong). > 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. Hm..I think you confuse the X server and client here. If you use cygwin (with the XFree-86 I pressume), then the cygwin+XFree86 on your win machine will be your X server. You don't need to start another X on your desktop. If you need to fire up X application (ie. X client), all you need to do is SSH from the cygwin console to your linux machine, and just start the app, eg; $> mozilla & Assuming the X forwarding is enabled and set up correcly, you should be able to get mozilla client on your cygwin. Hope that helps. RDB -- ------------------------------------------------- /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML \ / email and proprietary format X attachments. / \ ------------------------------------------------- Have you been used by Microsoft today? Choose your life. Choose freedom. Choose LINUX. ------------------------------------------------- -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
