Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 12:10:14 +0200 From: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: start X in background without it taking over the console? Message-ID: <BANLkTikzZYbS6dnUbLhrAyK=VxhOH977SA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4DCA1CD3.5010005@telting.org> References: <4DCA1CD3.5010005@telting.org>
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On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 7:21 AM, Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org> wrote: > I know this isn't strictly a Freebsd question. > > I want to start up X in the background without it taking over the console= . > =A0I want to switch over to it manually when I press alt-F9. Why not start if from another terminal? Say, press alt-F2, login there, and then startx. Then, alt-F1 remains free. Or perhaps use x11-servers/xorg-vfbserver. -cpghost. --=20 Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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