Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2018 12:28:23 -0500 From: Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Alternative to x11/gnome3 ? Message-ID: <2b5cf789-e846-aac0-d33a-39dd71d55f65@kicp.uchicago.edu> In-Reply-To: <20180808163722.GA67368@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> References: <CACDfs3qSdo6cS0F-DVMq2RDMsm-ktBc53k-xNwYwzex1X915-g@mail.gmail.com> <20180511090813.GA21919@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <1526039986.18202.5.camel@k1.com.br> <20180731014358.GA925@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180731195608.40cee639.freebsd@edvax.de> <20180801024324.GA20419@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180801165950.6bb77eabf97c862866d13ecf@sohara.org> <20180808161156.GA66626@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180808172413.9759288eaa75f6a8024417c8@sohara.org> <20180808163722.GA67368@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>
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On 08/08/18 11:37, Victor Sudakov wrote: > Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >> >>> No, this is not the way it works on Linux. Linux users don't run >>> startx from a text session, nor do they switch between GUI sessions >>> with Ctrl-Alt-Fn. They click "Switch user" and the graphical login >>> screen appears where you can get authenticated. >> >> You can use startx and Ctrl-Alt-Fn in Linux to do this, at least >> you could last time I used Linux and X. > > You can but nobody does because it's inconvenient and contraintuitive > for the majority of users. I for one do it occasionally. On multi-user number crunchers in the server room which normally run in "runlevel 5". > > Besides it's insecure unless you enable some X screen locking > mechanism and start your X session with something like "startx & && exit" Yes, or simpler thing does the same . Log in to virtual console then execute the command exec startx If somebody is at the keyboard in your absence and kills your X using Ctrl+C, then you will be logged off your virtual console session as well. That, BTW this is what I always do on my FreeBSD workstation (virtyally single user machine): same convenient, and one less process belonging to user root (display manager process). Incidentally one may need to create ~/.xinitrc for that, what someone else had mentioned. My ~/.xinitrc on workstation has one line: exec mate-session Thanks. Valeri > -- ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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