mikshaw, i knew that. I meant to ask why is exiting at all? But i was tired so i kept the question simple, did i mention i was tired? I understand. =o)
I can't speak for kuangtu, but personally I like to leave X occasionally simply because the console is much more serene in some situations....no icons, no menus, few colors, no mouse, no distractions...nothing but my single black screen and text.I don't have a DSL box nearby, but normally you should be able to switch to console with crtl+alt+F1 through crtl+alt+F6. Use crtl+alt+F7 to switch back to X.<voice class="homestar">I think I has a solution!</voice>
kuangtu: did you happen to cd to another directory before starting X? DSL has more than a couple of features that tend not to work properly if you are not in /home/dsl when X is started, including xmms skin and desktop icons. The default configs for these programs use relative paths (".xtdesktop" instead of "/home/dsl/.xtdesktop"), so they will not work unless you either change the configs or cd to $HOME before running them.
If you don't want to bother hunting down the configs, you could make an alias to startx in /home/dsl/.bash_profile:
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alias startx='cd && startx'
skaos: That doesn't work in a default DSL setup in runlevel 5, since there are no virtual terminals. Besides that, sometimes a user doesn't want X running at all.Mikshaw, that's exactly what I meant when suggesting to exit. Exiting, you login again and that resets the paths.Next Page...
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But i was tired so i kept the question simple, did i mention i was tired? 