Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

boot into init 3 while running linux, it boots into console mode. from there you can use your X server firing up with startx. rrs On 28 Mar 2003, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > Forgive an amateur... > > When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 box, and I like to have > X running so I can

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 15:38, Gordon Messmer wrote: > Before you start actually doing this, try to determine that X *is* > slowing your system down. When it's inactive, it's unlikely to impact > performance in any significant way. Shutting it down just makes more > bother for you... Y'all are

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

You're absolutely right; I'd completely forgotten that aspect of PuTTY. And I used to use it all the time at my last job. On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 13:58, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > On 28-Mar-2003/13:30 -0800, "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Hence my use of SquirrelMail, actually

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

Richard S. Crawford wrote: Forgive an amateur... ... As I understand it, I certainly don't need X running to make IMAP, Apache, SSHD, or any of the other remote programs I run work. But X can be a major resource hog, and slows things down when I'm logging in remotely. Before you start actuall

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On 28-Mar-2003/13:30 -0800, "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hence my use of SquirrelMail, actually. I wanted to be able to read my >personal e-mail using a web browser; that way I could read it from any >web-connected computer without having to install any additional software >(l

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 12:24, Jack Bowling wrote: > I gave up on remotely using X for mail reading a long time ago. Learn to use ssh and > then use fetchmail->procmail->mutt and you will be much happier as well as amazed at > the speed gain you will obtain. I still like eye-candy when I am at hom

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

** Reply to message from "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Fri, 28 Mar 2003 10:07:13 -0800 > Forgive an amateur... > > When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 box, and I like to have > X running so I can run applications like Evolution, Mozilla, and so on. > > When I'm on th

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On Friday 28 March 2003 01:54 pm, Robert Adkins II wrote: > > > I have found that X needs to be running on the remote server > with the gdm greeter running in order to connect with Cygwin. Hm.. I don't see why that needs to be the case. If you have Cygwin+Xfree86 in your local as the X ser

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

Richard S. Crawford wrote: Is there an easy and painless way I can shut down X before I leave on business trips, and start it back up again when I'm at home, without having to reboot the machine? Switch to a non-graphical console using [Alt][F2] then login as root and issue the command: telinit 3

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

David H wrote: user these keys at the same time. That won't work if he's running a typical graphical login configuration. It will just end the current session. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo

RE: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

Hello, >user these keys at the same time. > All that does is restart X. Which won't do what you need to do. >--- "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: >> Forgive an amateur... >> >> When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 >> box, and I like to have >> X running so

RE: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

As root, on a virtual terminal, init 3 init 5 will restart the X login. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard S. Crawford Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to shut down X without shutting down the

RE: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

Assuming he's in runlevel 3 -Steve -Original Message- From: DuSTiN KRySaK [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:17 PM To: Redhat Mailing List Subject: Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer? On 3/28/03 10:07 AM, "Richard S. Crawfor

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On Friday 28 March 2003 01:07 pm, Richard S. Crawford wrote: > As I understand it, I certainly don't need X running to make IMAP, > Apache, SSHD, or any of the other remote programs I run work. Correct > Is there an easy and painless way I can shut down X before I leave on > business trips, and

RE: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer? Forgive an amateur... When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 box, and I like to have X running so I can run applications like Evolution, Mozilla,

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

On 3/28/03 10:07 AM, "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spit this out onto my computer screen: >From the redhat menu - choose logout. Then you will be at the terminal. # exit to log the user off. Upon return login at the terminal then # startx Done deal. d -- redhat-list m

Re: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

user these keys at the same time. --- "Richard S. Crawford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Forgive an amateur... > > When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 > box, and I like to have > X running so I can run applications like Evolution, > Mozilla, and so on. > > When I'm on the road (whi

How to shut down X without shutting down the computer?

Forgive an amateur... When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 box, and I like to have X running so I can run applications like Evolution, Mozilla, and so on. When I'm on the road (which I am far too often for my job), I use a Windows XP laptop, and I log into my desktop computer remotely