Very Computer

I'm full of questions tonight ;)

Anyhow, I read in this newsgroup a post about starting your computer right into X.. I
thought that would be neat.  So, I ran xdm to make sure it was working okay... and
when it did, I couldn't exit.  I picked to exit X after I logged in and it took me
back to the xdm prompt.  I hit ctrl-c and it restarted the xdm prompt... I had to
reboot the machine from within X to restart!  I am sure there is an easier way...

L8r
Esperandi

    use <ctrl><alt><f1> to jump back into a console
     become root or go su
     then try eother killing the xdm process or for a marginally more
elegant solution try using
/etc/rc.d/rc3/S99xdm stop    (edit this to suit your system, i think
thats right for redhat)

     hope this helps,
Dave

Quote:> I'm full of questions tonight ;)

> Anyhow, I read in this newsgroup a post about starting your computer right into X.. I
> thought that would be neat.  So, I ran xdm to make sure it was working okay... and
> when it did, I couldn't exit.  I picked to exit X after I logged in and it took me
> back to the xdm prompt.  I hit ctrl-c and it restarted the xdm prompt... I had to
> reboot the machine from within X to restart!  I am sure there is an easier way...

> L8r
> Esperandi

Quote:>    This works for me:

>     use <ctrl><alt><f1> to jump back into a console
>      become root or go su
>      then try eother killing the xdm process or for a marginally more
> elegant solution try using
> /etc/rc.d/rc3/S99xdm stop    (edit this to suit your system, i think
> thats right for redhat)

>      hope this helps,
> Dave

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You could try using your virtual terminals.
Try Ctrl Alt F4 or Ctrl Alt F5 for example.

Quote:>>    This works for me:

>>     use <ctrl><alt><f1> to jump back into a console
>>      become root or go su
>>      then try eother killing the xdm process or for a marginally more
>> elegant solution try using
>> /etc/rc.d/rc3/S99xdm stop    (edit this to suit your system, i think
>> thats right for redhat)

>>      hope this helps,
>> Dave

> Is there any way at all that I could log in with xdm and simply carry on with my
> system as I would as if I had logged in at the text prompt?  I would like to be able
> to exit X when I wanted and hop back in as desired, but still log in through a
> graphical interface... I am thinking this is probably impossible unless there is some
> sort of trick to xdm since I am really in a totally differtent runlevel than the text
> interface...

just do a "ps" and kill the X server.

/Anders

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