On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 07:46:09AM +0100, J. Roeleveld wrote > On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > > > You're probably right, the magick sysrq feature pretty much obviates > > the need to boot to console to protect against buggy X11 servers. But, > > it's fairly recent and Linux-specific. So, the boot-to-console trait > > (which evolved pre-sysrq -- and even pre-Linux, and has very little > > "cost") hasn't died out yet... > > Yes, but it Xorg isn't that buggy to warrant the inconvience of > a console boot on a desktop/laptop. Even with proprietary nvidia > drivers.
How much inconvenience is it, really? I have a short script ~/bin/x #! /bin/bash startx -- -nosilk -config ${1}xorg.conf & At the commandline I simply type "x" and hit the {ENTER} key. Note the "-config ${1}xorg.conf". The default (i.e. no parameters passed to script) is to go with the regular xorg.conf. But if I want to go with a lower resolution (e.g. 640x480) from "640xorg.conf", I would start with x 640 This allows me to easily start up not only with different resolutions, but different colour depths, etc. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications