On Sunday 06 April 2003 04:20, Ramsay D. Seielstad, KC2GMW wrote: > Timing is everything ... after several months with the basic, nothing-X > installed, I finally got around to adding sound and Xfree86. I also ended > up rebooting and rather than the usual text consoles for login got the X > login screen. > > I was going to post asking how to get rid of X unless I deliberately > started X, but rather than trying to remove the automatic start up I think > I'll use this solution for a while. > > Two items I'm not terribly clear about though - if I <CTRL><ALT><F1> from > X into a text console, am I simply suspending X? And, can I return to X > when I'm done with my text console session or do I need to stop & restart > X?
X and all applications continue to run. With the default settings you can switch back to X with <CTRL><ALT><F7>. A sidenote. Usually, there is no need to switch to a text-console, since X provides a lot of it's own. Eg. xterm, eterm, rxvt, kterm and others. HTH, Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
