Re: Can I start X while other stuff going on?
Hello Kent West <westk@heir.acu.edu>,
> 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,
Yes and yes.
One nice thing you might like to do is set the environment variable
DISPLAY to the value :0 in your original vterm - then you can start
X programs from there. (I set it in my .login file.)
> or can I bring up the process in an Xterm or something similar?
No. Except, hmm, I don't know how you would do that. You might be
able to take the /dev/ttyXX from the vt and put it in an xterm.
But in general, no. The program runs where it's started. If it's an
X program, it looks at the DISPLAY variable and shows up there.
HTH
Jiri <jiri@baum.com.au>
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