Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

s. keeling wrote:

> Incoming from Aldous Huxley:
>  
>
> > Yes, I already knew that trick.  It's just that sometimes I need to
> > back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to
> > play mp3s using console-based players like "splay".
> >    
>
> Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all?  You don't
> need it to run X.  Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx &
> exit".
>
> Then when you next exit X, you'll be dropped to a command line login
> prompt.
>
>
>  
Instead of "nohup startx & exit", why not just "startx"? Looking at the 
man and info pages for nohup, I can't figure out what advantage it 
provides here.

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Kent