>>>>> "Matt" == Matt Hamilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Matt> hitting <ctrl>-<alt>-<backspace>. After you do that, you
Matt> need to disable xdm at bootup (obviously). I'm not sure the
Matt> official way to do this, but I'll put in here the way I did
Matt> it (yes, I made the same mistake, so I'm a fool too). In
Matt> /etc/init.d there's a file called 'xdm'. Toward the top
Matt> there will be a line that says 'run_xdm=1'; well, change
Matt> that to 'run_xdm=0' and that should take care of it. You
Matt> can change it back to 1 later when you get your
Matt> configuration set up properly for your video.
This is a perfectly good way and it works.
Another nice thing to know when fiddling with X is the following
resource specification which on Debian exists in /etc/X11/Xresources
(the systemwide resources file).
This means that C-r at the login window aborts X, and that F1 and
C-<RET> log you in with a 'failsafe' method in case you've screwed up
your .Xsession. I think this starts twm and a single xterm, but this
too is configurable somewhere in /etc/X11.
xlogin*login.translations: #override\
Ctrl<Key>R: abort-display()\n\
<Key>F1: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\
Ctrl<Key>Return: set-session-argument(failsafe) finish-field()\n\
<Key>Return: set-session-argument() finish-field()
