-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/06 03:04, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Ron Johnson: >> On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> Ron Johnson: >>>> And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek. >>> Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :) >> startx is your friend. > > It's not that I don't know how to start X from a console. But I (almost) > always need X anyway. And apart from that, I have a non-geek > girlfriend[1] using my computer from time to time.
My wife was *easily* trained not to fear the black text screen, and I put startx in her .bashrc (with a little wrapper so that it would only run from the console, not an xterm window). Certainly your GF can be similarly trained. > But maybe that fact > disqualifies me as a Real Geek[tm] a priori. ;-) I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing geeks reproduce. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFRemnS9HxQb37XmcRAhslAKDVImeGAHPdw2EWHmCus82TmMfrfwCgoXo3 vk7MPzn08I0VeMggNn7YJbQ= =1GRZ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]