Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 05:37:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Bill Tillman <btillman99@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: start X in background without it taking over the console? Message-ID: <776831.64113.qm@web36504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <4DCA6DD5.7030005@cyberleo.net> References: <4DCA1CD3.5010005@telting.org> <BANLkTikzZYbS6dnUbLhrAyK=VxhOH977SA@mail.gmail.com> <4DCA66A8.8090608@telting.org> <4DCA6DD5.7030005@cyberleo.net>
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=0A=0A=0A=0A=0A________________________________=0AFrom: CyberLeo Kitsana <c= yberleo@cyberleo.net>=0ATo: Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org>=0ACc= : freebsd-questions@freebsd.org=0ASent: Wed, May 11, 2011 7:07:01 AM=0ASubj= ect: Re: start X in background without it taking over the console?=0A=0AOn = 05/11/2011 05:36 AM, Chris Telting wrote:=0A> I already do... I'm want to a= utomate it.=A0 Every other virtual screen=0A> terminal can start without gr= abbing the console, I don't want X to=0A> either.=A0 I do development and I= suffer crashes.=A0 I want to do work while=0A> it boots up for a couple mi= nutes and I'm tired of manually switching=0A> back to text mode.=A0 It's ge= ts annoying the 200th time.=0A=0AYou could script it right after X starts, = as such:=0A=0Avidcontrol -s 1 # Equivalent to Alt-F1=0A=0AI don't think X i= s currently designed to start without initializing the=0Agraphics hardware,= though, so the initial vt change is probably=0Aunavoidable. Perhaps once K= MS trickles down?=0A=0A-- =0AFuzzy love,=0A-CyberLeo=0ATechnical Administra= tor=0ACyberLeo.Net Webhosting=0Ahttp://www.CyberLeo.Net=0A<CyberLeo@CyberLe= o.Net>=0A=0AFurry Peace! - http://wwww.fur.com/peace/=0A___________________= ____________________________=0Afreebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list= =0Ahttp://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions=0ATo unsubsc= ribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=0A=0AI'm= watching this thread with interest. First, I don't run X that much and wha= t =0AI seem to know about it is that once you start X is grabs your video h= ardware =0Aand that's that. I have never been able to get a text console ba= ck once I do =0Astartx. But I'm a simpleton and only run the normal standar= d windows manager =0Awhich installs with X. I've tried all the others and w= hile they are great I just =0Adon't see the need for all the overhead since= my FreeBSD servers are just =0Athat...servers. Once in X I can open as man= y Xterm windows as I want and I have =0Aaccess to the text console. Still I= would be interested to know if there is a =0Aresolution to his poster's qu= estion.
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