On May 29, 2014, Al Sten-Clanton wrote: > I now have Arch Linux on my box, and am using the startx command to > bring up Orca and company. Is there a reverse command that would > get me out of the gui and back to the text console I started from? It depends on your desktop manager and whether you want to keep running X in the background. You can simply use control+alt+F1 (or one of the other function keys) to return to the corresponding virtual terminal where the "startx" task would be running or you can log-in. From there, you can either hit control+Z to suspend the "startx" task (which can be resumed by typing "fg" to get it running in the foreground again) or control+C to kill it completely. Or, you can go to a completely different virtual terminal and just let "startx" continue to run on the one you had previously. Depending on your window-manager, you might have a "quit" or "log out" option. Here under Fluxbox, I have a "Exit" option which takes me back to where I typed "startx". Alternatively, you might be able to use "ps" to find the X server's process-id and then kill it from within X which might do the trick. I'm not sure whether it runs as a privileged process, and thus you'd need to kill it using "sudo". -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list