Debian Questions

[Robert Bushman]

I'm starting to find some things I can't figure out
how to change in Debian. I'm sure there will be more :)


No Autorun X / Exit to CLI
Currently, X starts immediately when I boot the
machine. If I remove S99gdm from the default
runlevel, it doens't. This is good, I don't
want X to run automatically.

Probelm is when I drop back to the CLI from
X, it's not dropping the video back to text
mode, so I get garbage on the screen.


Mapping the Alt Key
How do I map the Alt keys to send escape
(or more accurately, how do I get Alt to
send meta to emacs?)


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