[xubuntu-users] I think this is ultra cool

[c. marlow]

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> From: ralf.mardorf at rocketmail.com
> To: xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 21:19:05 +0200
> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] I think this is ultra cool
>
> On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 12:55 -0500, c. marlow wrote:
>> I was just sitting here thinking. I wished I could take my Xubuntu back to the old days where.....
>> when I click MOUSE MENU
>>
>> LOG OUT
>>
>> LOG OUT
>>
>> instead of it going back to that splash long in screen
>> http://i886.photobucket.com/albums/ac69/CMAR606/Xubuntu%20Mail%20List/IMG_20140619_022146_532.jpg
>>
>> It just goes back to a prompt:
>> where its just a black screen and it says
>> USER NAME: _
>> then you have to type STARTX to get into the system once you logged in.
>>
>> that would be sooo neat but I dont know if it would be allowing lots of holes in the system or not :(
>
> The display manager service and/or the log out option seems to be
> broken.
> http://upstart.ubuntu.com/getting-started.html
>
> Next time you log out and end up in tty run
>
> sudo service lightdm restart
>
> or instead of the wrapper run
>
> sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm restart
>
> or whatever DM you're using instead of
>
> startx
>
> that wont fix your problem, but it should start lightdm.
>
> By running
>
> ls -hAl /etc/init.d/*dm
>
> you neither will get an output like
>
> /etc/init.d/some_dm -> /lib/init/upstart-job
>
> or
>
> /etc/init.d/some_dm
>
> I guess different versions from Ubuntu go a different way.
>
> I' not using *buntu IOW upstart often, I prefer other Linux using
> SysVinit or systemd.
>
> Because you don't give enough information about your system and it's
> hard to guess what you did and to worm out all the information out of
> you, you perhaps should restore the last working version from your
> Xubuntu backups and than describe what you want to do, so we could help
> you to do it the right way.
>
> If you never made a backup, consider to change that approach.
>
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Oh no, I was saying Ralph that would be cool if I could make my system do that instead of going to a GUI log in screen when logging out or in, is to go to a TTL screen instead of a gui log in screen. But I dont know what kinda holes etc that would make the system vulnerable 

Christopher
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