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Re: cant get to desktop anymore

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On Monday 19 September 2016 14:31:10 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 08:33:23PM -0400, Neal P. Murphy wrote:
> > <CTRL><ALT><F7> will reach the X11 session. If it started. If not, it
> > could be that a default xdm session (KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.) wasn't
> > selected or a desktop 'task' wasn't installed.
> >
> > Console #7 is the standard console used for X11. Console #1 is the
> > default console when there is no default X11 session.
>
> That was true in wheezy.  It's not true in jessie.
>
> In jessie, running with systemd by default, the display manager takes
> over the *first* virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1).  The first console with
> a getty is therefore Ctrl-Alt-F2.
>
> Of course, if there is no display manager installed at all, then
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 should have a getty running on it once the system boots.  But
> as soon as you run startx, X takes over the *first* console (not the
> seventh) and you're right back to the same situation as if you had used a
> display manager.
>
> (I use startx on jessie, so I speak from direct personal experience,
> tested right now.)

In the Jessie I am currently using (recently freshly installed, but with /home 
added from my sickly desktop),  Ctrl-Alt-x restarts X.  And no, that isn't a 
left-over in /home. At least, I have never known it before!!

Lisi

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cant get to desktop anymore bell canada <bellcanadardp@gmail.com> - 2016-09-18 22:50 +0200
  Re: cant get to desktop anymore Kent West <westk@acu.edu> - 2016-09-19 00:10 +0200
    Re: cant get to desktop anymore Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 02:00 +0200
      Re: cant get to desktop anymore "Neal P. Murphy" <neal.p.murphy@alum.wpi.edu> - 2016-09-19 02:40 +0200
        Re: cant get to desktop anymore Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2016-09-19 15:40 +0200
          Re: cant get to desktop anymore Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 15:50 +0200
          Re: cant get to desktop anymore Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-09-19 16:30 +0200
        Re: cant get to desktop anymore Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 23:00 +0200
      Re: cant get to desktop anymore Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@fastmail.com> - 2016-09-21 22:40 +0200
        Re: cant get to desktop anymore Stephen Powell <zlinuxman@fastmail.com> - 2016-09-21 23:00 +0200
          Re: cant get to desktop anymore Zoltán Hermann <zoltanhbz@gmail.com> - 2016-09-22 07:10 +0200
          Re: cant get to desktop anymore Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 06:50 +0200
          Re: cant get to desktop anymore Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-24 08:30 +0200
    Re: cant get to desktop anymore Frank McCormick <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2016-09-19 03:50 +0200
      Re: cant get to desktop anymore Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2016-09-19 23:10 +0200
        Re: cant get to desktop anymore Dominic Knight <dominicknight@gmx.com> - 2016-09-20 18:30 +0200

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