Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:55:00 -0700 From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net> To: "Youngman, Neil" <Neil_Youngman@NAI.com> Cc: "'doc@freebsd.org'" <doc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD FAQ - Incorrect answer Message-ID: <20001027115500.A22276@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> In-Reply-To: <C07DA1368274D3119DFC009027AA5B210176DC65@AYL-EXCHANGE1>; from Neil_Youngman@NAI.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:28:22AM %2B0200 References: <C07DA1368274D3119DFC009027AA5B210176DC65@AYL-EXCHANGE1>
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On Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:28:22AM +0200, Youngman, Neil wrote:
> Some kind soul has already added the paragraph "To return to the X session,
> you must switch to the virtual console running X. , and you would use Alt+F9
> to return."
>
> I might still suggest adding at the start, "X does not run in the text
> console from which it was started" and changing "If you have eight virtual
> consoles then X will be running on the ninth" to "If you have eight _text_
> virtual consoles then X will be running on the ninth"
The first suggestion is good. The second one isn't correct. There is
nothing stopping one of those eight consoles from being another X session.
Here's a proposed diff:
--- book.sgml 2000/10/26 23:07:29 1.112
+++ book.sgml 2000/10/27 18:48:35
@@ -6941,8 +6941,11 @@
</keycombo> as normal to move between them.</para>
<para>To return to the X session, you must switch to the virtual
- console running X. If you have eight virtual consoles then X will
- be running on the ninth, and you would use
+ console running X. If invoked from the command line, (i.e.
+ via <command>startx</command>) an X session will attach to
+ then next free virtual console, not the text console from
+ which it was envoked. If you have eight virtual consoles
+ then X will be running on the ninth, and you would use
<keycombo action="simul">
<keycap>Alt</keycap>
<keycap>F9</keycap>
> The text about control lock mode in older releases has now been deleted,
> should this have been retained?
It doesn't seem very useful to me.
-- Brooks
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