YAY! How to close X on Centos7 with a keyboard sequence solved!
Chapter 13 RedHat Desktop Migration and Administration gives
instructions for setting up Ctrl+Alt+Backspace as the escape from X!
Just followed the instructions and worked great!
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/desktop_migration_and_administration_guide/index
"And in the end, only kindness matters."
-- Jewel, "Hands"
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MzK
On 12/11/19 6:29 AM, Kay Schenk wrote:
On 12/9/19 5:06 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote:
On Dec 9, 2019, at 17:54, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, those consoles are available but they are NOT my original text
mode login console which used to be vt1 and is now taken over by
Gnome. What they do is bring me to a login prompt -- this is NOT
what I want. This change to vt1 for my GUI, in this case, Gnome is a
change with version 7 of CentOS due to some sort of validation with
a REAL console. I am still NOT clear on what the problem is. I could
easily go in and modify startx to NOT start with vt1 for GUI (this
is NOT in the "standard" version of startx) but well, I am still
trying to sort this out.
The “startx” command will run Xorg with -keeptty if you launch it
from a VT console. I believe this is related to non-setuid Xorg and
systemd-logind, but it’s been a long time since I’ve cared about
startx. I prefer graphical login prompts. I think you can run startx
with a vt7 parameter if you want the old behavior.
What happened to cause this concern to me. My GUI totally and
completely locked up on me last week. I could NOT log out, I could
not do ANYTHING! I finally had to just power down completely! The
old ctrl-alt-F1 used to put me back at console without fail. I don't
like having this option "taken away".
You couldn’t log in on another VT and kill the other session? Or just
run reboot? I’m pretty sure that the xorg-x11-xinit package hasn’t
changed in several years so you must not have needed it that much.
--
Jonathan Billings
Thanks for your response. I will investigate the RH bug that lead to
this decision and see what other alternatives acceptable to me might
exist.
-- Kay Schenk
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