I have a new laptop with LXDE and XFCE4 installed for the desktop environment. I boot to run level 3 and then run startx. When logging out of the either desktop it never returns to the command prompt, there's just a blank screen and I can not switch to an alternate terminal. However, the Alt-SysRq EISUB does work and reboots the system.
>From what I've read on the web this is a common problem with laptops and it seems to happen with all desktop environments. The solutions mentioned had quite a range and included the way the ~/.initrc is configured to power management settings. However, none have worked, and there's nothing that can be done after logging out except to reboot. How can I log out of a desktop and return to the command prompt that I started from before running startx? Thanks, dhk
