November 14, 20196 yr My server normally runs headless but I now have a need to access it via the servers GUI. Is there a command to startup the GUI from the server CLI or do I need to reboot (prefer not too)?
March 5, 20224 yr On 11/14/2019 at 5:10 AM, PCRx said: My server normally runs headless but I now have a need to access it via the servers GUI. Is there a command to startup the GUI from the server CLI or do I need to reboot (prefer not too)? Apologies for opening a VERY old post but is this still the case?
May 5, 20233 yr I guess the next question is; is there really much of a downside to always booting with the gui? Sure it will take up some memory but it can't be that bad can it?
May 5, 20233 yr Community Expert 17 minutes ago, Gex2501 said: I guess the next question is; is there really much of a downside to always booting with the gui? Sure it will take up some memory but it can't be that bad can it? I see no reason to not always boot with the GUI as I think the overhead is trivial. That does no stop using the GUI over the network, and if for any reason you ever have a monitor and keyboard+mouse attached you can use the local GUI without having to change anything.
June 22, 20233 yr Is there a way...nicely...to kill the slim session and revert back to the command prompt?
February 1Feb 1 On 6/22/2023 at 9:53 PM, TDD said:Is there a way...nicely...to kill the slim session and revert back to the command prompt?Nice question ! Does anyone can tell us ? ;)
February 1Feb 1 Community Expert You can't kill "slim" as far as I know. but you can switch back to the command prompt by hitting ALT+F(1..?) at the console.One of the ALT Keys will get you back to the GUI (try them out its F6 or F11 or so).So, no need to kill slim.
February 1Feb 1 11 hours ago, MAM59 said:You can't kill "slim" as far as I know. but you can switch back to the command prompt by hitting ALT+F(1..?) at the console.One of the ALT Keys will get you back to the GUI (try them out its F6 or F11 or so).So, no need to kill slim.I try ALT+F1...12 without any success.May be needed to add something somewhere to work ?I wanted to find a CLI command to Before, on unraid 6,9 we used :"/usr/bin/chvt 1"Now it's impossible.Where can we find all specials commands unraid specific ?There's no man for slim.
February 1Feb 1 Community Expert 3 minutes ago, PicPoc said:I try ALT+F1...12 without any success.Must be something wrong with your keyboard/console. I can use ALT-F1 to ALT-F6 to switch to different sessions...or?, lemme try... mompls...AAHHH, sorry, from within slim you need to push ALT-CTRL-F1 to F6!!! my fault.ALT-CTRL-F7 brings you back to slim, F8-F12 only give you a blank screen.(without slim its only ALT-Fx) Edited February 1Feb 1 by MAM59
February 2Feb 2 Oh, yes ! Cool !!Thanks ;)Works great.ALT+CTRL+F1 : acces to cliALT+CTRL+F7 : back to slimThanks again.How can you find that ?;)
February 2Feb 2 Community Expert 8 minutes ago, PicPoc said:How can you find that ?I knew it from other OS's like FreeBSD. And so it was just Try&Error...Note that F2-F6 give you DIFFERENT CLIs, in case you need more screens... (they look the same at the beginning, but once you have logged in you see that they are different) Edited February 2Feb 2 by MAM59
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