Re: getting back into X
- From: Derek Simkowiak <dereks kd-dev com>
- To: Jerry & Ellen Davis <jfdecd execpc com>
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- Subject: Re: getting back into X
- Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 14:06:47 -0800 (PST)
> So I did a Ctrl Alt 1 to get to a console and login that way and kill the
> offending process.
That was a smart thing to do. Hitting ALT-F1 through ALT-F6 will
give you another text-mode "virtual terminal", numbered 1 through 6, what
you have referred to above as a "console". If you're in X, you need to
hit CTRL-ALT (as you obviously know).
What you didn't know is that X runs on virtual terminal 7, so
hitting ALT-F7 would have taken you back to X (and Gnome).
> I couldn't figure out a way to then logout and then get back into my Gnome
> GUI session. I settled for a reboot rather than just turning the machine
> off or somthing equally as stupid.
Unless you are running with X starting automatically (called
"runlevel 5"), you could have simply killed X. In Unix, The GUI ("X") is
not directly tied to the O.S. (It isn't really in MS-Windows, either, but
that's another topic...:) So you could have done "killall X" followed by
a new "startx".
Of course, ALT-F7 is what you wanted.
> Now the question is: is there a way of getting back into my GUI session?
> Or is how I would up doing it the way I should do it?
The only time you should ever need to reboot your sytem is if you
have a hardware problem. Sometimes Quake will freeze up my 3Dfx card, and
I need to telnet in from another computer to reboot my system--but that's
it.
Here's one of my servers:
[dereks@internal dereks]$ uptime
2:15pm up 268 days, 18:11, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.03, 0.01
...and the last reboot was because of a block-wide power failure
caused by construction. If it weren't for that, the uptime would be well
over a year.
Of course, if you are using runlevel 5 it's another story. A
simple mouse problem can force a hard boot if you can't get to a VT
(because X keeps restarting in an endless loop). That's why I think it's
*incredibly bad* to have that little "Would you like to start X
automatically when you start your computer?" dialog in Xconfigurator. NO!
--Derek
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