Re: Frozen cursor after logout; CLI escape
On Fre, 2002-11-01 at 20:53, Marc Stergionis wrote:
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> I have been using (since root obviously can't log in graphically)
> control-option-F1 to get a command line to use as root,
Better never log in as root at all. sudo or su is your friend.
> but can't figure out how to toggle back out of that (to the user login)
alt-F7, where alt can be option or command depending on the keymap.
> and when I try to log in as my user, the screen tells me there's
> already an xserver running (the existing graphic login screen).
You could start another one with startx -- :1 .
> Also, whenever I do use graphic login to start a user session, and
> then logout to the graphic login screen, may cursor is *always*
> frozen, even though it just worked in the previous session.
This has been reported before, unfortunately I don't remember if any
solution has been found yet.
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Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member / CS student, Free Software enthusiast
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