YAY! How to close X on Centos7 with a keyboard sequence solved! Chapter 13 RedHat Desktop Migration and Administration gives instructions for setting up Ctrl+Alt+Backspace as the escape from X! Just followed the instructions and worked great! https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/desktop_migration_and_administration_guide/index "And in the end, only kindness matters." -- Jewel, "Hands" ______ MzK On 12/11/19 6:29 AM, Kay Schenk wrote: > > On 12/9/19 5:06 PM, Jonathan Billings wrote: >> On Dec 9, 2019, at 17:54, Kay Schenk <kay.schenk at gmail.com> wrote: >>> Yes, those consoles are available but they are NOT my original text >>> mode login console which used to be vt1 and is now taken over by >>> Gnome. What they do is bring me to a login prompt -- this is NOT >>> what I want. This change to vt1 for my GUI, in this case, Gnome is a >>> change with version 7 of CentOS due to some sort of validation with >>> a REAL console. I am still NOT clear on what the problem is. I could >>> easily go in and modify startx to NOT start with vt1 for GUI (this >>> is NOT in the "standard" version of startx) but well, I am still >>> trying to sort this out. >> The “startx” command will run Xorg with -keeptty if you launch it >> from a VT console. I believe this is related to non-setuid Xorg and >> systemd-logind, but it’s been a long time since I’ve cared about >> startx. I prefer graphical login prompts. I think you can run startx >> with a vt7 parameter if you want the old behavior. >> >>> What happened to cause this concern to me. My GUI totally and >>> completely locked up on me last week. I could NOT log out, I could >>> not do ANYTHING! I finally had to just power down completely! The >>> old ctrl-alt-F1 used to put me back at console without fail. I don't >>> like having this option "taken away". >> You couldn’t log in on another VT and kill the other session? Or just >> run reboot? I’m pretty sure that the xorg-x11-xinit package hasn’t >> changed in several years so you must not have needed it that much. >> >> -- >> Jonathan Billings > > > Thanks for your response. I will investigate the RH bug that lead to > this decision and see what other alternatives acceptable to me might > exist. > > -- Kay Schenk > >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> https://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos