[xubuntu-users] I think this is ultra cool

c. marlow chris at marlows.org
Thu Jun 19 20:52:12 UTC 2014



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> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:41:51 -0400
> From: tigerwolf at tigerden.com
> To: xubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [xubuntu-users] I think this is ultra cool
>
> 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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I wouldnt know how but it would be cool if someone knew how to make a script you can have on your desktop you double click it,  it logs you out and kills greeter so all you have is the TTY prompt. :D

Christopher
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