Re: X-window keys
On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Max Hyre wrote:
> Rather, ``why X comes right back after dying''? After ctl-alt-bs,
> X does indeed appear to die---everything goes black, I see the virtual
> terminal from which I started xdm momentarily, then I'm back in X
> again.
Well, that's exactly what xdm is intended for. xdm tries to keep an
xserver running permanently, so that you can always login to the system
using a nice graphical login prompt dialog box. In general, the purpose
of xdm is to keep the machine running X all the time, and that's what
it is doing now in your machine.
If you want to run X only from time to time, just say startx from your
usual text shell. That way, you'll get a normal X session, that you'll be
able to finish with ctrl+alt+backspace, or better, stopping your window
manager (or whatever other program you have at the end of your .xinitrc
file).
Regards,
M. S.
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Martin A. Soto J. Profesor
Departamento de Ingenieria de Sistemas y Computacion
Universidad de los Andes masoto@uniandes.edu.co
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