Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2004 23:44:23 +0100 From: Simon Barner <barner@in.tum.de> To: Derrick Ryalls <ryallsd@datasphereweb.com> Cc: 'Kent Stewart' <kstewart@owt.com> Subject: Re: RE: Thank you Message-ID: <20040127224423.GF15226@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A197@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> References: <20040123173115.GA359@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> <A99A5AC30F74624388EE5F757BA58A20D7A197@RED-MSG-50.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
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--DWg365Y4B18r8evw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Curious, what if I want either option. In other words, when I boot up the > machine it shows the gdm login, but if I want a console login can I just = hit > Alt-F2? Yes. ALT+Fn, n=3D1, ... 8 will give you virtual terminals, ALT+F9 brings you back to X. The virtual terminals are defined in /etc/ttys (it also as a man page: ttys(5)). Other graphical login managers (like XFree's xdm) are launched =66rom that file, but for some reason that does not work with gdm (thus the startup script). Simon --DWg365Y4B18r8evw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAFunHCkn+/eutqCoRAohbAJ90xNxF681yBenfn/C+mrknCUAEvwCfXCHh TrxAU01wPVnW4NA/cy2HzTQ= =f7JI -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --DWg365Y4B18r8evw--
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