Re: Xfree86 and Knoppix
On Tue, Aug 13, 2002 at 11:09:49AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Colin Watson wrote:
> > Ctrl-Alt-F1 doesn't get you back to an ordinary virtual console?
>
> I must be doing something wrong when I launch X, but whenever I do
> Ctrl-Alt-F1, it takes me to the console I logged in from, OK, but no
> prompt, just the most recent message from the X server.
Depends how you started X. As I remember, 'startx' returns you to a
prompt, but it's a while since I used it.
> But if you've installed xdm (as I suspect Brian means he's done) then
> every console presents the xdm login screen, because (at least as it
> installed on my box) S??xdm was in _every_ rc?.d directory.
Runlevels are unrelated to virtual consoles. I'm not sure what you mean
here.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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