On Mon, 3 Jul 2000, Adrian Smith wrote: >other side of this -- if i open a terminal window under x windows can i >still do anything while x windows is running that i would be able to do >if it wasn't running? as an example -- what i am looking to avoid -- >under windoze if you try to run some programs at a dos prompt it will >tell you that you can not do this in a multi-tasking environment (as if >windoze were....) -- does linux have this type of limitation? if not, >then i may as well boot to the GUI.... I have never experienced anything like this in Linux, or any flavor of unix that I have used. It must be better set up than Windoze... Ehm, what isn't? >which of course leads to the question >how do i change that at this point in the game? Some people know the easy way, through drakconf, linuxconf etc, I can only tell you the hard way: edit /etc/inittab and change the initdefault from 3 to 5. There is explanatory text at the top of the file. Save the change, and next time you will be zoomed into the graphical login. Paul -- Who cares more for information than for inspiration, prefers elevators to wings. -J.B. Opdyke )0( [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] )0( http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 Registered Linux User 174403