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Hi,
I was changing one of the setting in X-windows and now when I run it I
simply get window interface up for a second then the linux prompt and black
screen come up.
How do I get back into the x-window interface?

Thank You
Chris

Fred

Oh the importance of keeping a backup of such thing....
Do you remember the change you Made?  If so, change it back, If not,
simply run  Xconfigurator again. (that's what I'd do.)

In the future, when your system is configured well enough to work,
make a backup of your entire /etc directory.  If changes work, copy
that change to your backup, if they don't, you have a backup of what
you know worked. and simpley copy the backup into it's origanial place
and all is well again.

tar works well for this.
man tar

Quote:

>Hi,
>I was changing one of the setting in X-windows and now when I run it I
>simply get window interface up for a second then the linux prompt and black
>screen come up.
>How do I get back into the x-window interface?

>Thank You
>Chris

Make a directory named RCS in /etc

Whenever you make a change to a configuration file in /etc and have tested
it and it works, run "ci -l filename". If you*things up you can get
back to the last working version by running "co -l filename".

See "man rcs" for more details.

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