help: graphical login screen --> text login prompt
Joe(theWordy)Philbrook
jtwdyp at ttlc.net
Mon Jul 5 06:15:09 UTC 2004
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It would appear that on Sun, 04 Jul 2004, Matt Hansen did say:
> On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 14:14, javac at mail.com wrote:
>
> > 2.) from the gnome desktop ctrl-del-backspace (or ctrl-alt-backspace,
> whatever
> forget right
> > now) usually causes some sort of weird sleep mode or something.
> > 2a.) why doesn't it work as expected and just bring me to an old style
> prompt,
> sans x-windows?
>
> Ctrl-Alt-BckSpce is used to restart the X Server not kill it. If you want
> to get
> to a text prompt
> either login on a VT (Ctrl-alt-Vt[1-6]) or run 'init 3' as root to switch
> to run
> level 3 from your
> X session. 'init 5' to start up X again.
>
> > 2b) is there an alternative to this altered form of the three finger
> salute?
>
> Not sure what you mean. You think Ctrl-Alt-BSpce is an altered form of
> Ctrl-Alt-Del? They perform two different functions. c-a-b restarts X,
> c-a-d restarts the computer.
Hmmm perhaps ctrl-alt-backspace restarts X when you start up in runlevel 5
but when you start up in runlevel 3 and use startx to fire up the gui,
ctrl-alt-backspace causes X to shut down while complaining about losing
the connection to the x server, and dumps you back in runlevel 3 in the
still running shell from which you did the startx command. At least
thats how it's always worked for me. I'm guessing that if there isn't a
parent shell to fall back to when X is reset, it automatically restarts.
But that if its a child process of a shell, the parent shell resumes
instead?
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