On 11-Nov-98 Kent West wrote: > This will probably be one of those questions that EVERYBODY knows the > answer to, so "why are you asking such dumb questions, Kent?" However, > being entrenched in the Windows world where you didn't do such things, > I wanted to ask before I hosed something.
That's OK, Kent! You're in the position of some kid who's never had a good meal, led up to a table covered in goodies, who asks "Can I really eat all that at once?". Just get stuck in. Otherwise put: assume you can do everything at once unless you find different in particular cases. > Can I switch to another virtual terminal and start X Windows while I've > got something else going on in the first vterm, such as a download or a > dselect session, etc? Yes. > And if I can, once I'm in X, how do I then get back to where I can see > how the download is progressing? Do I just Ctrl-Alt-F[key] back to the > original vterm, or can I bring up the process in an Xterm or something > similar? Pretty well. Normally X (whichever VT you start it from) is running in VT6 (or maybe VT7). To get from X back to ANY VT (Vt1, Vt2, ... ) just press Ctrl+Alt+F1, Ctrl+Alt+F2, etc. However, you can't "transfer" a process from a VT to X, nor from X to a VT, nor between VTs, nor between different xterms in X. To get from any VT back to X, just press Alt+F6 (or maybe Alt+F7). To switch between VTs (even though X is running) press Alt+VT1, Alt+Vt2, etc. You'll find that everything that's running on any/all of the VTs, and also in X, just keeps running even though you're not looking at it. Welcome to the world where things happen. Cheers, Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 11-Nov-98 Time: 02:34:37 --------------------------------------------------------------------