On Sun, 18 Jul 2004 17:23:32 -0700, Professor Fossil Fuel wrote:

> Hi all, I am just starting to take my first baby steps into Linux. I
> set up Red Hat 6 from an old book I found. During setup I configured X
> to start at startup. Now I am trying to exit X and get out to the
> shell but I can't figure out how to do it.

WHENEVER a newbie asks this question, I think the first answer we give
should be, "You don't." Do not exit X to get to the command line. Use
xterm (or something nicer) instead.

> Also what (script I guess) do I modify so that I start up in the
> shell?

Again, for a newbie, the answer is, "You already did start up in the shell."
Usually (distro dependent) you have 6 command-line sessions already
running (ctrl-alt-f1 through ctrl-alt-f6) before the graphical session is
started (ctrl-alt-f7). The ctrl-alt-f<number> keystroked switch between
them.

For a real impressive experience, it is possible to start multiple
graphical logins (ctrl-alt-f8, etc) and switch between them. X windows has
been able to do this as far back as I can remember (1991, when I first
used X windows), Mac OS X just recently got this capability. Last time I
checked (several years ago) the Evil Empire had still not copied this
idea, but I don't care about them. This lets a second user log in as
himself and do something without disturbing your session, other than
making you get up and leave while he does it.

Gnome 2.6 lets you open a second session in a window within the first
session.

Not that it is even necessary to have multiple login screens, since apps
can be started as different users, displaying on the same screen, or even
on running on different computers while displaying on the same screen, or
distributed across multiple screens on one or multiple computers,
including distributing one apps windows across different displays, etc...

>
> TIA

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