Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 03:36:24 -0700 From: Chris Telting <christopher-ml@telting.org> To: "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: start X in background without it taking over the console? Message-ID: <4DCA66A8.8090608@telting.org> In-Reply-To: <BANLkTikzZYbS6dnUbLhrAyK=VxhOH977SA@mail.gmail.com> References: <4DCA1CD3.5010005@telting.org> <BANLkTikzZYbS6dnUbLhrAyK=VxhOH977SA@mail.gmail.com>
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On 05/11/2011 03:10, C. P. Ghost wrote: > 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. >> I 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. > I already do... I'm want to automate it. Every other virtual screen terminal can start without grabbing the console, I don't want X to either. I do development and I suffer crashes. I want to do work while it boots up for a couple minutes and I'm tired of manually switching back to text mode. It's gets annoying the 200th time.
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