On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:56:47 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<snip> > I'm not sure what you're saying. > -- If you're logged into X, and press Ctrl-Alt-Fx, you'll switch to > VTx (e.g. Ctrl-Alt-F3 to go to VT3), and from there, if you hit > (Ctrl-)Alt-F7 (in most cases; F5 I believe with Knoppix, etc), you'll > switch back to your open session in X. It's still F7 as of Knoppix v. 3.2. > -- If you're not logged into X, but are sitting at the GUI login > screen (such as gdm or kdm), and you do the above procedure, you'll > switch to the VTx, then back to the GUI login screen. > > If you want to shut down the GUI login screen and just have text mode, > > switch to VTx, and then run something like "/etc/init.d/gdm stop" as > root. This particular command will shut down the gdm GUI login screen. I think this is the part that was confusing him. He was trying to logout and it was simply taking him back to the gdm login screen. /etc/init.d/gdm stop is a much better way, as you mention. Jacob ----- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 .vbs = Virus Bearing Script?
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