Can't help you with your etc/ttys As far as Ctrl-Alt-F# this is the way to switch between consoles when you are in X: if you are alone in X (i.e. only one tty console and one X open then Ctrl-Alt-F1 will bring you back to the standard tty console and from there Ctrl-Alt-F7 back to your X console. If you have more consoles open (two logins and two X) then Ctrl-Alt-F2 gets you to the second tty console and Ctrl-Alt-F8 to the second X console... just an aside if X is not running then you switch between consoles with Alt-F# As far as the wrapper is concerned, it is a security feature so that you don't need to be SU in order to start an X session. If you are alone on your machine you may want to ignore it (at your own risk) some distributions don't use it, some others do... Lionel --- Peter Leftwich <Hostmaster@Video2Video.Com> wrote: > Sorry, my XFree86 4.2.0 woes revisited... Can a couple of you post sample > lines from your /etc/ttys files that show either the "off" console method > or the "xdm -session -nodaemon etc" method please? > > My /etc/ttys file currently has some commented-out seemingly junk lines: > #ttyv7 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon -error /usr/X11R6/xdm_errors.log" xterm on secure > #ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -error /usr/X11R6/xdm_errors.log -session startkde" xterm off > secure > > And what's all this I hear about CTRL-Alt-F# to change from console to X? > > And what's this I hear about using wrapper if you are non-root? Once > the startx script or the XFree86 binary is run from the command line, is > the user taken automatically into a GUI environment, or must the user then > *change* to the virtual console/screen on which the X-server is running? > > Thanks bignessly, > > -- > Peter Leftwich > President & Founder > Video2Video Services > Box 13692, La Jolla, CA, 92039 USA > +1-413-403-9555 > > _______________________________________________ > > Newbie@XFree86.Org > *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: > http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://http://taxes.yahoo.com/
