Patrick Wiseman wrote:
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Matthias Czapla wrote:
:On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
:> >Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all? You don't
:> >need it to run X. Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx &
:> >exit".
:>
:> Instead of "n
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Matthias Czapla wrote:
:On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
:> >Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all? You don't
:> >need it to run X. Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx &
:> >exit".
:>
:> Instead of "nohup startx & exit", w
On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 06:50:46PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
> >Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all? You don't
> >need it to run X. Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx &
> >exit".
>
> Instead of "nohup startx & exit", why not just "startx"? Looking at the
> man and in
s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Aldous Huxley:
Yes, I already knew that trick. It's just that sometimes I need to
back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to
play mp3s using console-based players like "splay".
Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all?
Aldous Huxley wrote:
Yes, I already knew that trick. It's just that sometimes I need to
back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to
play mp3s using console-based players like "splay".
So I'd like to be able to boot into X login, then back out of X when
I'm through "working"
Incoming from Aldous Huxley:
>
> Yes, I already knew that trick. It's just that sometimes I need to
> back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to
> play mp3s using console-based players like "splay".
Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all? You don't
need
Aldous Huxley wrote:
Yes, I already knew that trick. It's just that sometimes I need to
back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to
play mp3s using console-based players like "splay".
So I'd like to be able to boot into X login, then back out of X when
I'm through "working"
Yes, I already knew that trick. It's just that sometimes I need to
back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to
play mp3s using console-based players like "splay".
So I'd like to be able to boot into X login, then back out of X when
I'm through "working", free up that precio
On Wednesday 02 June 2004 14:54, Steve Witt wrote:
> But this isn't really a problem I don't think, as you can get
> access to a console screen when you are in X. You press "cntl - alt
> - F1" (or F2 or F3) to get a console screen. To get back to X press
> "cntl - alt - F7".
or just "alt-F7"
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Steve Witt wrote:
To get back to X press "cntl - alt - F7".
Actually, by default, the "cntl" is optional when going from text
console to X, but not optional the other way around. But learn it
Steve's way, so you don't have to remember which way is which.
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Aldous Huxley wrote:
Thanks to the advice of this group, I can now dual-boot using Lilo.
Thanks again. Now I need to figure out how to configure the proper
file that controls how Debian boots up. I like having the automatic
X login screen, but whenever you try to logout or explicitly kill
the pro
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004, Aldous Huxley wrote:
> Thanks to the advice of this group, I can now dual-boot using Lilo.
> Thanks again. Now I need to figure out how to configure the proper
> file that controls how Debian boots up. I like having the automatic
> X login screen, but whenever you try to logo
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