X & AIX
Chuck Karish
karish at mindcraft.com
Wed Jan 16 05:38:37 AEST 1991
In article <829 at nih-csl.nih.gov> jip at helix.nih.gov (john powell) writes:
>I am assisting some basically novice system administrators in setting up and
>using a RS6000 AIX 3.1 (patch 3001 I believe). IBM did the initial
>software installation and afterwards on boot the console was running X as root.
>
>1. After a user logs in from the console and starts X, how does he
> stop X and logout? We tried killing X but this leaves the console hung.
<CTRL><ALT><BKSP> kills the X server, with console error messages.
If you put a line like
"Quit mwm" f.quit_mwm
into the RootMenu stanza in your users' .mwmrc files, they'll be
able to exit X from the mwm menu. If the user closes all child
windows before exiting, no console messages will result.
>2. (This may be the answer to the first) Some of the Docs. we have found talks
> about starting X from virtual terminal and hot-keying to other virtual
> terminals. Were should we look for documentation on doing this?
Try 'man open'. This opens a native-mode virtual terminal. The
user rotates through the active virtual terminals with the right-side
<ALT><ACT> keys. I always use 'open xinit' instead of 'xinit' so
I have a console window open and can escape from X. This makes it
easy for a second user to open up another X server without disturbing
my screen while I'm at lunch.
'xopen' opens a virtual terminal from X; toggling back to X iconifies
the virtual terminal.
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Chuck Karish karish at mindcraft.com
Mindcraft, Inc. (415) 323-9000
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