Re: Can I start X while other stuff going on?
On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Kent West wrote:
> Can I switch to another virtual terminal and start X Windows while I've
> got something else going on in the first vterm, such as a download or a
> dselect session, etc?
Yes.
> And if I can, once I'm in X, how do I then get back to where I can see how
> the download is progressing? Do I just Ctrl-Alt-F[key] back to the
> original vterm, or can I bring up the process in an Xterm or something
> similar?
cntrl-alt-Fn works. I guess if you're root, you could ttysnoop in an
xterm, but that's probably more trouble than it's worth ;)
Note though that if you work your vc hard (playing squake for example),
then when you hit alt-f7 to get back to X, then your xsession may reset
itself...
Matthew
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