> :Can I switch to another virtual terminal and start X Windows while I've > :got something else going on in the first vterm, such as a download or a > :dselect session, etc? > > I'm sure you've already gotten a million positive responses :) However, in > my experience, it's not a good idea to switch to console too often - once > in a while, X crashes (at least, it does for me, on 3 entirely different > machines), which will kill your download and everything else...
X is stable on my machines, too bad it isn't on yours. Maybe an upgrade will help? Crashing X will take down any download going on in a xterm or some x-based download app. But it won't kill a download running on a virtual console. X may screw up the keyboard and make life difficult that way, but downloads outside x will complete unless you also hang the kernel. Helge Hafting
