Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

[Kent West]

s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Aldous Huxley:
 

Yes, I already knew that trick.  It's just that sometimes I need to
back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to
play mp3s using console-based players like "splay".
   

Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all?  You don't
need it to run X.  Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx &
exit".
Then when you next exit X, you'll be dropped to a command line login
prompt.
 

Instead of "nohup startx & exit", why not just "startx"? Looking at the 
man and info pages for nohup, I can't figure out what advantage it 
provides here.

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Kent
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