From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 11 10:10:15 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A86106564A for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 10:10:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cpghost@cordula.ws) Received: from mail-vx0-f182.google.com (mail-vx0-f182.google.com [209.85.220.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7393F8FC13 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 10:10:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vxc34 with SMTP id 34so293691vxc.13 for ; Wed, 11 May 2011 03:10:14 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.52.77.70 with SMTP id q6mr37094vdw.165.1305108614425; Wed, 11 May 2011 03:10:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.168.34 with HTTP; Wed, 11 May 2011 03:10:14 -0700 (PDT) X-Originating-IP: [93.221.168.155] In-Reply-To: <4DCA1CD3.5010005@telting.org> References: <4DCA1CD3.5010005@telting.org> Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 12:10:14 +0200 Message-ID: From: "C. P. Ghost" To: Chris Telting Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: start X in background without it taking over the console? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 10:10:15 -0000 On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Chris Telting wrote: > I know this isn't strictly a Freebsd question. > > I want to start up X in the background without it taking over the console= . > =A0I want to switch over to it manually when I press alt-F9. Why not start if from another terminal? Say, press alt-F2, login there, and then startx. Then, alt-F1 remains free. Or perhaps use x11-servers/xorg-vfbserver. -cpghost. --=20 Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/