On Fri, 7 Nov 2003, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, S. Hakim Hamdani wrote:
>
> > That would be appreciated, also from my side. I found it a bit strange
> > yesterday, when I reinstalled debian on a laptop, that I couldn?t login as
> > root graphically, and also
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, S. Hakim Hamdani wrote:
> That would be appreciated, also from my side. I found it a bit strange
> yesterday, when I reinstalled debian on a laptop, that I couldn?t login as
> root graphically, and also that as a normal user I can?t shutdown or reboot
> g
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, S. Hakim Hamdani wrote:
> Also, how can one get out of the whole x system under Debian? To get back into
> text mode? I also haven?t found a method of booting into text.
The display manager 'wdm' can be configured to allow users to shutdown,
reboot and e
Hoyt Bailey wrote:
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Subject: Re: GUI login screen and non-root shutdown...
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:56:47 -0600,
Kent West wrote:
[...]
If you have a
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> On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:56:47 -0600,
> Kent West wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> &
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:56:47 -0600,
Kent West wrote:
[...]
> If you have an X session going, and you switch to a VTx, you
> can then log in as a different user and start a second X
> session with a command like "startx -- :1". Go to a third VT
> and start a third session with a command like "star
On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:56:47 -0600
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm not sure what you're saying.
> -- If you're logged into X, and press Ctrl-Alt-Fx, you'll switch to
> VTx (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F3 to go to VT3), and from there, if you hit
> (Ctrl-)Alt-F7 (in most cases; F5 I believe with
S. Hakim Hamdani wrote:
just logout and it will go to text mode or use ctrl+alt+F1 if you use the
latter simply press ctrl+alt+F7 to get back to graphical mode
When I do that, I get back to the login screen, and no way of getting out of
there, except killing the xserver, which is a bit harsh.
H.
> just logout and it will go to text mode or use ctrl+alt+F1 if you use the
> latter simply press ctrl+alt+F7 to get back to graphical mode
When I do that, I get back to the login screen, and no way of getting out of
there, except killing the xserver, which is a bit harsh.
H.
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On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 03:22:21PM +0100, S. Hakim Hamdani wrote:
> That would be appreciated, also from my side. I found it a bit strange
> yesterday, when I reinstalled debian on a laptop, that I couldn´t login as
> root graphically, and also that as a normal user I can´t shutdown or reboot
> gra
> Also, how can one get out of the whole x system under Debian? To get
> back into text mode? I also haven´t found a method of booting into text.
>
You can always switch to text-mode via . Another solution is
to press n during the kdm-login-screen (I don't know about gdm,
though).
If you want t
>> As a normal user, you don't have permission to shut down. You have to
>> reconfigure whatever session manager you're using (kdm, gdm, wdm, xdm)
>> and edit the appropriate config file to allow normal users (or at least
>> you) to shut down. Figure out which session manager you're using and let
>
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