is there a way to logout after starting x? what i mean by this is can i start my desktop (fluxbox from tty1 or something and then immediately after x is started it will logout tty1 so that if someone tryes to do ctrl+alt+backspace or something when i'm running xlock or xscreensaver with lock enabled they cant just exit out of x and have controll over my user account? i noticed that if you press ctrl+alt+f1 then log ctrl+z and then logout (or maybe it was exit, i dont remember) and then go back into x with ctrl+alt+f7 then as far as i could tell theres no way to unlock the computer because even if you do one of the key commands to get to a differnt desktop you would still have to log in? i was wondering if there was any way to make this process a little easier so i wouldnt have to start x and then manually log out each time

you can simply disable the ctrl-alt-fn switching by adding a line to your xorg.conf. Take a look at man xorg.conf (slackware is using x.org now, right? if not, the equivalent thing for XFree86)

You could also start x right from inittab or the initscripts and bypass the tty login completely.

Correct, Slackware uses xorg...

At prompt:

Here is a good walkthrough for help if you need configuring X. It is pretty straight forward with a couple exceptions.

http://www.bitbenderforums.com/vb22/...?postid=313121

Note: It says use xf86config at the top, but its a lie, use the above to start the config.

EDIT: This does not apply to your post at all, I got carried away, oops.

Use something like
setsid startx ; sleep 3; exit
to launch X from tty1.

Obviously a few years late, but I use exec setsid startx as an alias for startx. That prevents using the shell again if you Ctrl+Alt+Backspace from the screen saver and prevents killing X from the tty you logged in from. Does the same as what r0b0 said in the end, but 3 seconds earlier
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