Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 16:43:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: XF86 & fvwm Problem, Help? (fwd) Message-ID: <199609171443.QAA09091@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960918002651.433C-100000@sdev.blaze.net.au> from "David Nugent" at Sep 18, 96 00:31:23 am
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David Nugent writes: > > On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Greg Lehey wrote: > >>> I'm going back to startx, unless you can give me some reason why I >>> should consider xdm that isn't obvious to the uninitiated, and tell >>> me how to REALLY get out of it. >> >> xdm is great for people who never want (nor need) to see a character >> mode display. > > I must be missing something. What's wrong with Ctrl-Alt-F? to get > back to your character term vts while X is running? Hmmm. This seems to be general knowledge in which I don't share. That's probably because I've been using Thomas Roell's X server (now XInside) for nearly 5 years, and it doesn't work that way. But there's definitely something wrong with any key combination which will take you out of X. I use a number of control-alt-Fx combinations for emacs, though I suppose I wouldn't have done so if XFree86 had been available at the time. > Works fine > here. Works especially well for solving problems (like X locking > up) that you describe. > >> Unfortunately, not everything runs under X, and xdm >> effectively takes away some of your freedom. > > Does something not run in an xterm? ddb, for example. > Yeah, sure, it is certainly a matter of personal preference, and > X isn't the panacea. :) > >> I use xinit myself, and >> for the life of me I can't recall what the difference is from startx. >> Not much, anyway. You could consider them interchangeable. > > Startup and login are somewhat different. Your shell logins, for > example, aren't read unless you such them into your .xsession. Aha. Thanks. Greg
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