On 2014-06-25 14:03:20 -0700 (-0700), Russ Allbery wrote: > This doesn't change anything else that you point out, but that's > why you run startx & and then log out of the virtual console. On my workstations and travel machines I have: alias x='startx&exit' ...in my ~/.bash_aliases file. Works like a charm. But given that I prefer ratpoison and a screen full of xterms, I'll bow out of the rest of this thread. -- Jeremy Stanley