Re: Classic Gnubie accident

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On 10/30/06 03:04, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Ron Johnson:
On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote:
Ron Johnson:
And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek.
Real geeks may still have their terminals running under X. :)
startx is your friend.

It's not that I don't know how to start X from a console. But I (almost)
always need X anyway. And apart from that, I have a non-geek
girlfriend[1] using my computer from time to time.

My wife was *easily* trained not to fear the black text screen, and
I put startx in her .bashrc (with a little wrapper so that it would
only run from the console, not an xterm window).

Certainly your GF can be similarly trained.

But maybe that fact
disqualifies me as a Real Geek[tm] a priori. ;-)

I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing
geeks reproduce.

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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