Re: X11 and virtual consoles.... (startx + vlock)

2006-04-26 Thread Bigby Findrake
1. What about backgrounding startx and then exiting your shell? 2. Have you tried using lock -np instead of vlock? On Mon, 17 Apr 2006, Eric Schuele wrote: Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, [hadn't worn my newbie hat lately... so I thought I'd try it on.] Is there a way to run X via startx and

Re: X11 and virtual consoles.... (startx + vlock)

2006-04-26 Thread Eric Schuele
Bigby Findrake wrote: 1. What about backgrounding startx and then exiting your shell? Errr? I can do that??? Let's see Just tried (startx ; logout). That works pretty well. I guess it never occurred to me. Though had it... I would've thought I'd have had to nohup it. Works great!

Re: X11 and virtual consoles.... (startx + vlock)

2006-04-17 Thread Eric Schuele
Eric Schuele wrote: Hello, [hadn't worn my newbie hat lately... so I thought I'd try it on.] Is there a way to run X via startx and prevent someone from switching back to the console that started it and pressing Ctrl-C, without using DontVTSwitch in my xorg.conf file? I would like to be