Sorry I haven't repsonded for a few days... I have been away for the
weekend. Anyway thanks for all your help. It has given me a much better idea
on how x works and how to configure it. I will play around with setting X to
just kick open xterm full screen and xscreensaver and see how I go.
Thanks
Justin

On 3/10/05 4:49 AM, "Hauke Fath" <hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE> wrote:

> At 17:22 Uhr +0000 2.10.2005, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
>> I guess you still want to see the screensavers, right? So you will need
>> to run an X server. You can use startx to start an Xserver with just one
>> client, rather than a full session, by giving the client as the first
>> argument.  E.g.: "startx xscreensaver".
> 
> Wouldn't he want a second client, say, an xterm?  ;)
> 
> If he made that fullscreen, he'd have a console and a screen-saver...
> 
> hauke
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