> Ctrl-Opt-F1 does what, exactly?
Switches to a console. The typical Linux installation has
six consoles (accessible by C-O-F1 to F6), reserving console 7
for X11. When you're not in the X11 console, you can omit the
Ctrl key.
> This is LEM - I prefer not to run X if I don't have to, as the
> machines _are_ somewhat limited.
Actually, it's MaX, but that's nit-picking. :-P
I should have assumed limited hardware.
> As I'm going to be the primary user ... and won't need to
> run X all the time, it seems like it would be easier to
> leave it runlevel 3 and start X only when needed.
Something that occurred to me some time after I sent my first
response -- make the last line of your wife's .login (or .profile)
file exec startx and see if that does what you want.
> And RAM is never cheap enough, heh. Especially as the
> machines get older and RAM for them starts getting hard
> to find at all.
Do you know about www.macseek.com? That's a great place to
find RAM for older (and newer) boxes; comparison shopping at
its finest.
> Yeah, I can always Ctrl-Opt-+, ... I can't expect my wife
> to remember something like that. Would there be a way to
> set it to use a "low" res by default so that she wouldn't
> have to change it, but I could when I log in?
That's exactly what I was saying. :-) The XF86Config file
not only allows you to set up multiple resolutions, it lets
you specify the default:
Section "Screen"
SubSection "Display"
Modes [list of resolutions]
The first mode on the Modes line is the default. So moving
things around on that one line should do the job. (Actually,
you have a Subsection "Display" for each resolution you're
supporting, so you have to change it in each one you support.)
> Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its
> victims may be the most oppressive. - C.S. Lewis
I'm a Lewis fan too... my problem is picking a favorite
quote; there are just so many good ones.
--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
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