Hello,
>user these keys at the same time.
><ctrl><alt><backspace>
All that does is restart X. Which won't do what you need to do.
>--- "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.
>>
X can be a major resource hog, however you are likely
experiencing your slowdown from your network access speed more then the
"hogging" caused by X-Windows.
You could open up a console, su to root and then change your
init level to 3. Another thing you could do is change your standard init
level to 3 and then run 'startx' when you want to run X. To change your
boot-time runlevel edit your '/etc/inittab' file. BE VERY CAREFUL with
this file.
>> 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.
>>
I have found that X needs to be running on the remote server
with the gdm greeter running in order to connect with Cygwin. Although,
I can say that I have never started up Cygwin, ssh'ed into the remote
server and then run the 'startx' command. (That's something that I will
have to give a try now.)
Just gave it a go and that didn't work.
Anyway, I am going to stick to my guns right now and say that
X11 needs to be running at the gdm greeter for you to connect to it via
Cygwin.
BTW, if you are seeing it as sloooooowwww through remote
connections, that is the nature of the beast. X apps aren't extremely
quick over a network connection, even slower over the internet
connections most people have.
Heck, it took 'forever' to fire up an X application when ssh'ing
from my home Linux workstation to one of the servers at the office, the
server I did that with doesn't run X either.
>> --
>> 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
>>
>
>
Regards,
Robert Adkins II
IT Manager/Buyer
Impel Industries, Inc.
586-254-5800
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