Re: startx from terminal or telnet

In article <b4d7f94e-de83-4d9a-90d6-e6f2ce626be3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Edward Rosten <Edward.Rosten@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 9, 12:01 pm, hagit <hagit_...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
I have a very strange phenomenon.
I connect to my box with telnet, change to super user (root) and run
'startx'.
Then, if I don't run anything else from my telnet window (the same
window I run the 'startx' from) everything goes fine.

Are you running:

startx &

or suspending it and running bg, in order to run these other commands?

Tell me how those are different, please.

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