Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-06-05, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using fluxbox without a dm. When I exit from fluxbox and return to the console, the text scrolls off the bottom of the screen so that the active prompt is not visible. ... The only things that are now changed

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-05, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't answer the question regarding base causes, but to get a program to run after you quit X, add the command to the end of your .xinitrc file in your home directory. I'm not sure how to do this. I didn't have an .xinitrc, so I copied

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-06-05, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't answer the question regarding base causes, but to get a program to run after you quit X, add the command to the end of your .xinitrc file in your home directory. I'm not sure how to do this. I didn't have an

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/05/2007 04:06 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: I'm not sure how to do this. I didn't have an .xinitrc, so I copied the one from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to my home directory, and added the line as follows: [...] However, this doesn't seem to have changed anything - I logged out of x, back in, and

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-05, Bob McGowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not sure how to do this. I didn't have an .xinitrc, so I copied the one from /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc to my home directory, and added the line as follows: ++ #!/bin/sh ## comments snipped ## .

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-05, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can create a script that starts X for you and resets the terminal after X is done: ~/bin/mystartx-- #!/bin/sh startx consolechars -f Uni3-Terminus14 --end--- Execute it by typing sh

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/05/2007 06:41 PM, Tyler Smith wrote: That did it, thanks! Is there any advantage to using sh ~/bin/mystartx over just making it executable and running it directly? Cheers, Tyler I'm glad I could help :-) There is no advantage in using sh. I just wanted to skip the step of making

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-05 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-06, Mumia W.. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm glad I could help :-) There is no advantage in using sh. I just wanted to skip the step of making the script executable. BTW, a previous message got lost in the tubes. I tried reset with no effect, for what it's worth. Tyler -- To

console too long after stopping x

2007-06-04 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I'm using fluxbox without a dm. When I exit from fluxbox and return to the console, the text scrolls off the bottom of the screen so that the active prompt is not visible. This seems to also effect any other virtual consoles that I was logged into before starting x. Exiting from the console

Re: console too long after stopping x

2007-06-04 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-06-05, Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm using fluxbox without a dm. When I exit from fluxbox and return to the console, the text scrolls off the bottom of the screen so that the active prompt is not visible. ... The only things that are now changed from default are a