[oclug] Refreshing X

Dave O'Neill dmo at magma.ca
Mon Mar 4 14:10:56 EST 2002


On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 02:03:45PM -0500, Francis J. A. Pinteric wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002 08:42:28 -0500 (EST) "JP" <jp at msfree.ca> wrote:
> > 
> > Thanks but this is actually halting (shutdown -h now) my system :(
> >
> In /etc/inittab make the default one that doesn't boot xdm. In a redhat
> system, this would be 3. From there, you would have a console based login
> which you can start up with `startx'.  When you take down X with
> Ctl-Alt-Del it would bring you back to the console.

Remember, though... it's Control-Alt-Backspace that will cause X to exit,
not Control-Alt-Delete.  

-dave0
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