Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread David Wright
Quoting Anthony Campbell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Yes, quite right. What I was thinking of was that the terminal you start > from is effectively out of use as long as X is running because it > contains the starting-up stuff. You can also kill X from that terminal. I use a shell function (which t

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Nov 1999, Mike Werner wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > This gives me 5 terminals. X comes out in the terminal "above" the one > > you use for startx; I do this in the last terminal (5) and X is in 6. I > > believe it is possible to have 64 terminals in all. > > Not quite. X will come

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Mon, Nov 22, 1999 at 12:11:26AM -0500, Mike Werner wrote: > I'm not sure what happens if, for instance, one user was to startx from, > say, VC 1 and then another user, for example root, was to do startx from > another VC. Would that start another X on VC 8? I think I'll have to try > that next

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-22 Thread Mike Werner
Anthony Campbell wrote: > This gives me 5 terminals. X comes out in the terminal "above" the one > you use for startx; I do this in the last terminal (5) and X is in 6. I > believe it is possible to have 64 terminals in all. Not quite. X will come out in the VC one higher than the last one that

Re: Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Nov 1999, Michael Perry wrote: > HI all- > > I recently decided to show someone that linux had a number of virtual > console and had known for quite awhile that X ran on the 7th. Imagine my > surprise when my Debian slink system shows up on VC 2 and there is nothing > but a blinking cursor

Virtual consoles in slink; somewhat updated

1999-11-21 Thread Michael Perry
HI all- I recently decided to show someone that linux had a number of virtual console and had known for quite awhile that X ran on the 7th. Imagine my surprise when my Debian slink system shows up on VC 2 and there is nothing but a blinking cursor on the others besides 1. I know that somewhere t