RE: Fate strikes again
You need to kill the xdm and X processes (using ps -ax). Then run startx.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dan [mailto:danb50@hotmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 2:12 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Fate strikes again
All right.... this is the thing though... If you do c+a+f1, then it exits,
but then if you try running `startx' it complains about the Xserver already
running... so do you think I should be typing xdm instead? I'll have to
try... I really want to reinstall GNOME... I miss it and windows is getting
fugly. :(
>From: Chris Flipse <flip@csh.rit.edu>
>To: danb2@home.com
>CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Subject: Re: Fate strikes again
>Date: Mon, 5 Jul 1999 23:49:09 -0400
>
>On Tue, Jul 06, 1999 at 03:33:15AM +0000, Dan wrote:
> >Would you believe it? Thanks to the info in this message I relinked
> >/dev/mouse to /dev/psaux and X finally worked with the mouse. (I tried
> >/dev/psaux using the graphical xf86setup program, but it didn't work for
> >some reason, how odd.) It is amazing, isn't it? Only problem now is that
> >when I right click and hit "Exit X" all it does is restart X with the
>debian
> >login... I think that oughta be fixed. I'll have to look into that script
> >file, I forget what its called. Oh well.
>
>Not a bug -- what you're getting back to is XDM (X Display Manager)
>...well, that or wdm, kdm or login.app or...there's a host of them...
>
>XDM and it's ilk are basically terminal logins for the X server. You
>log in through XDM, putz around in your X session, and when you quit,
>the login comes up again. Just like when you log in from the command
>prompt.
>
>If you want to log in from the command prompt, you can switch to another
>VT using <ctrl>-<alt>-<Fn>.
>
>If you don't want the XDM login at all, uninstall the package. You can
>enter X windows from the command prompt by typing "startx"
>
> - flip
>
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