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bedtime

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Registered: 2019-02-12

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[SOLVED] Return to tty after X closes?

I manually start Awesome via .profile:

[ "$(tty)" = "/dev/tty1" ] && sleep .01 && setterm --clear all -foreground cyan -background black --ulcolor cyan hbcolor bright cyan --store && echo "Starting Xorg..." && exec startx >/dev/null 2>/dev/null

# Below code doesn't work:
sh

I would like to be dumped into tty after exiting Awesome and without logging out. I find that inserting an 'sh' command after the startx command doesn't work, even if I cleanly use the 'quit' option in Awesome; sh is skipped and the user is relogged in again. I don't want to have to log in again.

Is this possible?

Last edited by bedtime (2019-02-20 13:02:09)

seth

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Registered: 2012-09-03

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Re: [SOLVED] Return to tty after X closes?

For a start: drop the "exec"

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bedtime

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Registered: 2019-02-12

Posts: 68

Re: [SOLVED] Return to tty after X closes?

For a start: drop the "exec"

Yes, that worked—didn't even need to have the 'sh' command so was able to drop it. It now does exactly what I wanted.

Thanks.