On Wed, Jun 16, 1999 at 04:44:19PM -0700, Tony Hernandez wrote:
> When i exit out of X windows , I get a screen full of colorful smily
> faces and weird non-keyboard charchters
> flashing about every half second .. is this normal ??

Just a datapoint. I get that too. I also sometimes get it when
using wscons to toggle between X and char ttys.

(Hitting enter clears it up for me)

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