Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2017 22:45:34 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: byrnejb@harte-lyne.ca Cc: "James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: New question Message-ID: <20170424224534.91448acb.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <07197ae8f00a48f5ea7d098fb75145ca.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca> References: <07197ae8f00a48f5ea7d098fb75145ca.squirrel@webmail.harte-lyne.ca>
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On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 16:10:10 -0400, James B. Byrne via freebsd-questions wrote: > How does one drop out of slim to the console? I installed FreeBSD-11 > on a spare laptop and I am having some difficulty logging on through > slim. I have installed mate and slim but when I run slim it prompts > for a login and then fails with 'unable to execute login'; or > something similar. > > However when this happens I do not know how to get out of the > graphical logon screen without rebooting the system. Solution A: switch consoles with Ctrl+Alt+PF1 / PF2 / PF3 / ... Solution B: do A, followed by "killall -9 slim" This of course doesn't work anymore when you're using sc "as" the console driver, so you must use "vt". This _might_ indtroduce new problems with character sizes, fonts, and locale support. :-) Sidenote: In normal text mode, you use Alt+PF1 / PF2 / PF3 / ... to switch between the virtual consoles, the "Print / Sys Rq" key can be used to iterate through the consoles. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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