On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 05:26:38PM -0700, post id wrote: > > > --- On Thu, 10/21/10, David Jardine <da...@jardine.de> wrote: > > [...] > I can't find a setting with this web mail > that affects line length. I'll do manual carriage returns until > I find a solution. >
Isn't that a good enough solution? :) > > [...] > > Now I read a claim that if one didn't use a login > > manager to log in and start X, then one was logging in with root > > privileges. > > > > Where did you read that nonsense? > > I stumbled across it as I was reading howtos on installations > on the Internet. Well, forget it. > [...] > > And since that X session was started in that screen > it's still there running when I do a ctrl+alt+f1. Right. If you move to (probably) tty7, you'll be back in your X session. > The login manager doesn't use a screen to start X, so > it doesn't show up on a screen, right? I'm afraid I don't know about login managers. > > So what's the following that appears on the screen?: > Entering Restore TV > Restore TV PLL > Restore TV HV > Restore TV Restarts > Restore Timing Tables > Restore TV Standard > Leaving Restore TV They're messages left by startx (or programs called by startx). I have no idea what those particular ones mean, but they look unproblematic. Better than the error messages I always see. :) > > This is a laptop with an LCD screen. > Is it trying to drive an external monitor? No idea. > [...] > > You just have to learn how to close your X > > session down properly. > > > So how do I shut down X properly? On this laptop I > usually do "shutdown -h now" from a console when I'm > ready to quit. > We'd need to know more about your setup to answer that. Are you using a window manager (fluxbox? blackbox? fvwm?...)? You can always close your X session by brute force with ctrl-alt-backspace; closing all running applications (including xterms) ususally does it more elegantly. Cheers, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20101022014243.ga2...@gennes.augarten