On Thursday 11 August 2005 13:25, you wrote: > On Thursday 11 August 2005 11:59, Henning Brauer wrote: > > * Dave Feustel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-08-11 18:57]: > > > I just discovered that even though xdm is running, > > > terminals C[0-3] are running in character mode > > > ie. if, while logged in via xdm, I enter ctl-alt-F[0-3], > > > I get a tty login!!! > > > > eh, yes, of course. > > This may be obvious to you, but it is not to me. > > > > And if, alfter logging in to one of those tty screens, > > > I atempt to start KDE, I am informed that I can't > > > because the x server is already running. > > > > because it is already running? > > But I ran KDE by manually starting it for a long time. > What is the point of a graphical login for only one user? > I expected that when I enabled xdm, more than one > user could login and run kde (I.e 4 copies of kde could > be run simultaneously on my computer, 1 each at C0-C3. > I clearly have misapprehended something wrt graphical > login. What am I missing here? [snip]
We all have our own expectations and experiences, but this was exactly what I expected, the first time I ran KDE from via xdm. I now have all three worlds to use: 1) I have several consoles in text mode, 2) I have the kde world (kmail is what I use), 3) I can bring up a console terminal program, 4) I can run X programs. I see this as a great thing, myself. --STeve Andre'
