From owner-freebsd-doc Fri Oct 27 11:55: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1A7837B479 for ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:55:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e9RIt0P23000; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:55:00 -0700 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 11:55:00 -0700 From: Brooks Davis To: "Youngman, Neil" Cc: "'doc@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: FreeBSD FAQ - Incorrect answer Message-ID: <20001027115500.A22276@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from Neil_Youngman@NAI.com on Fri, Oct 27, 2000 at 09:28:22AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 @@ as normal to move between them. 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 startx) 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 Alt F9 > 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 -- Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message