If you give a command with a & after it. It is started in the background,
meaning that you get your command prompt back. So if you do CTRL-ALT-F1 you
will see a prompt and not a bunch of messages of the X-server.
Jo
Kuraiken wrote:
> Ken Wilson wrote:
> >
> > for Xwindows type 'startx &'
> >
>
> Excuse me but...
> (showing glaringly my newbie status :-))
> What's the ampersand for? I normally just type "startx" and hey presto! It
> starts.
>
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