Re: Can I start X while other stuff going on?
On 10 Nov 1998q, D'jinnie 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?
>
> I'm sure you've already gotten a million positive responses :) However, in
> my experience, it's not a good idea to switch to console too often - once
> in a while, X crashes (at least, it does for me, on 3 entirely different
> machines), which will kill your download and everything else...
>
I've never had this problem. Indeed, one of the things that's most astonished
and impressed me about linux, coming from Dos, is that I can start lynx and/or
ncftp in at least 3 different consoles and download different files
simultaneously. There probably is a bit of slowdown but it's not obvious. It
NEVER crashes. And this is on a humble DX486/100 with 20 meg memory.
Anthony
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