Re: XF86Config file question - starting XWindows in level 3
Jesse Keating <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.redhat.release.psyche |
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| Organization | j2Solutions |
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On Thursday 28 August 2003 18:21, Stephen Liu uttered: > Thanks for your advice. > > Could you please advise function of 'first' and 'second' tty > > $ ls -x /dev/|grep tty > showing there are many of them. > > Thanks in advise. Think of it as multiple desktops for your shell. How often are you in a text editor, but need to peek at some other file? Sure you can do it by suspending the current process, and opening a new one, but wouldn't it be easier to flip to another terminal and look, while keeping the first application running? They are there to facilitate multitasking. -- Jesse Keating RHCE MCSE http://geek.j2solutions.net Mondo DevTeam (www.mondorescue.org) Was I helpful? Let others know: http://svcs.affero.net/rm.php?r=jkeating -- Psyche-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list