From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 25 00:01:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA10917 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:01:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (pinsoft.internet.co.nz [202.37.141.181]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA10912 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 00:01:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from tui.pinnacle.co.nz (tui.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.3]) by kakapo.pinnacle.co.nz (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id TAA00670; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 19:02:46 +1200 (NZST) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 19:02:06 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen To: flygt@sr.se cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: X windows and normal FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <19980825074230.B22974@sr.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 25 Aug 1998, Gunnar Flygt wrote: > On Tue, Aug 25, 1998 at 02:19:34PM +1200, Jonathan Chen wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Josh wrote: > > > > I (obviously) have a question? If you have X windows installed can you > > > exit X windows to the normal FreeBSD enviroment? > > > Yes. > > > 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. The screen with X running is on vty3 (on a out-of-box system). You can can back to it by using Alt-F4 -- Jonathan Chen | de-moc-ra-cy (di mok' ra see) n. Three wolves | and a sheep voting on what's for dinner. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message