On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Glenn Becker wrote: > It sounds like you have xdm running. I don't much like it either - it is > difficult to get to pure console with that thing in the way.
You're quite right I do indeed have xdm running, and had already noticed the problem vanished when xdm did, but I assumed it had some vital functionality for X that I wasn't aware of... But I'll be sure to blat it from startup completely :) What purpose does it serve anyway? Thanks! Regards, Gavin,