Hi, postid: On Friday 22 October 2010 02:26:38 post id wrote: [...]
> So how do I shut down X properly? On this laptop I > usually do "shutdown -h now" from a console when I'm > ready to quit. That certainly will stop the X environment since what you are doing is completly halting the machine. In order to just stop the X environment but still running your computer you can always do it "brute force": the key combination Ctrl-Alt-Delete will forcibly stop "just" the X environment. By doing this, you will see you are returned to the controlling terminal and that the command prompt will be restored (since the "startx program" is now stopped; remember my previous message about it). If startx is configured, as I suspect, to start not only the X-Windows system but a window/desktop manager too (xfce, KDE, Gnome, whatever), there will be somewhere within the window manager an option to shut it down (depending on the environment, it will be accesable using your right mouse button or an entry somewhere on the desktop bar). This will allow for the GUI to properly "clean itself" prior to stop so it should be considered the proper way. But again, by what you say it seems that all you do from the text console is launching your GUI and once you end up with your GUI you don't mean completly stopping your computer. Given that, I'd say you'd be better off by installing a graphical login manager (you yourself suggested xdm) and forget about all this. Cheers. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
