[xubuntu-users] I think this is ultra cool

[George F. Nemeyer]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2014, c. marlow wrote:

> >>
> >> 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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