From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 24 23:38:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA09277 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:38:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from unix.safeweb.net (safeweb.net [207.193.55.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA09272 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 23:38:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bob@safeweb.net) Received: from safeweb.net (dial-049.safeweb.net [207.193.192.49]) by unix.safeweb.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with ESMTP id BAA05917; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:36:15 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <35E25B98.34BAD22@safeweb.net> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 01:37:12 -0500 From: Bobby Walker X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: flygt@sr.se CC: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: X windows and normal FreeBSD References: <35E20019.C059555D@swbell.net> <19980825074230.B22974@sr.se> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gunnar Flygt wrote: > > There are basically 2 ways to have X running on your system. You can > > invoke it from the command line using `startx', or have the `xdm' > > (X-Login stuff) running all the time. In both cases, it is possible to > > switch to the std. console stuff by using Ctl-Alt-F1. > > It must be something wrong in all my 4 systems then. When I do like > that, OK I get to the console, but I'm never able to get back to X. btw > I'm running fvwm2. > > -- > regards, Gunnar > email: flygt@sr.se Check /etc/ttys The last ttyv# should be the virtual console X runs on. In my ttys it looks like this: ttyv4 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm off secure ttyv4 is the F5 key, that's the virtual I switch back to when I need to go back into X. Hope that helps, -- Bob To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message