Is it possible to make a console a log-in option on the graphic name/password screen? (KDE, WM, Console) John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 jsowden@americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 02:27, John Sowden wrote:
Is it possible to make a console a log-in option on the graphic name/password screen? (KDE, WM, Console)
No, I don't think so. You can get a text console by pressing ctrl-alt-F1 in fact there are six on F1-F6, and the graphical 'console' is on F7, F10 tails some log entries. HTH Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
No, but you could use the Failsafe login. That drops you to nothing but the bare min window manager & an Xterm. However, if you want to log into a console only, it's easier to just do ctrl+alt+Fx & log in. On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 11:54, Dylan wrote:
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 02:27, John Sowden wrote:
Is it possible to make a console a log-in option on the graphic name/password screen? (KDE, WM, Console)
No, I don't think so. You can get a text console by pressing ctrl-alt-F1 in fact there are six on F1-F6, and the graphical 'console' is on F7, F10 tails some log entries.
HTH
Dylan
-- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
Thanks for the unfortunate news. The reason I wanted to do this is because if I am in KDE and I enter ctrl-alt-F1 to go to console 1 it works fine, but ... when I want to return to kde, pressing ctrl-alt-F7 gives me a non-kde looking graphics box on a black screen that says "Input Not Supported" . I have left several messages on kde and suse, lists with no solution response. I have not recompiled my kernel, a pandora's box I wish to not open. As I am a DOS user for the serious stuff (database accounting, etc.) console operation is important to me. Any help would be appreciated. John On Wednesday 21 May 2003 09:54 am, Dylan wrote:
On Wednesday 21 May 2003 02:27, John Sowden wrote:
Is it possible to make a console a log-in option on the graphic name/password screen? (KDE, WM, Console)
No, I don't think so. You can get a text console by pressing ctrl-alt-F1 in fact there are six on F1-F6, and the graphical 'console' is on F7, F10 tails some log entries.
HTH
Dylan
-- John Sowden American Sentry Systems. Inc. 1221 Andersen Drive San Rafael, CA 94901 U.L. Listed Central Station Alarm Service Serving the San Francisco Bay Area Since 1967 jsowden@americansentry.net http://www.americansentry.net
On Thursday 22 May 2003 5:21 pm, John Sowden wrote:
Thanks for the unfortunate news. The reason I wanted to do this is because if I am in KDE and I enter ctrl-alt-F1 to go to console 1 it works fine, but ... when I want to return to kde, pressing ctrl-alt-F7 gives me a non-kde looking graphics box on a black screen that says "Input Not Supported" . I have left several messages on kde and suse, lists with no solution response. I have not recompiled my kernel, a pandora's box I wish to not open. As I am a DOS user for the serious stuff (database accounting, etc.) console operation is important to me. Any help would be appreciated.
When I enter ctrl-alt-F1 to go to console 1 it works fine, and when I want to return to kde, pressing ctrl-alt-F7 also works fine, so they may be some mileage in investigating your setup to make this work [no ideas though]. Why not just configure bash to run the way you want in kde [if it is the functionality you are after rather than the aethetics of full screen? rgds Vince Littler
On Thu, 22 May 2003 09:21:46 -0700
John Sowden
Thanks for the unfortunate news. The reason I wanted to do this is because if I am in KDE and I enter ctrl-alt-F1 to go to console 1 it works fine, but ... when I want to return to kde, pressing ctrl-alt-F7 gives me a non-kde looking graphics box on a black screen that says "Input Not Supported" . I have left several messages on kde and suse, lists with no solution response. I have not recompiled my kernel, a pandora's box I wish to not open. As I am a DOS user for the serious stuff (database accounting, etc.) console operation is important to me. Any help would be appreciated.
Why not drop the "graphical login"? Change the default login to ascii, and when you need to start X , just enter startx. You won't have any problems going back and forth between X and console with an ascii login. -- use Perl; #powerful programmable prestidigitation
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