When I used DSL the other day I ended up accidentally switching out of my Virtual Terminal that had X running in it. When I got back I had a black screen. I tried to switch to another virtual terminal (now that I have discovered just how cool they are!!) to kill X or something I couldn't (byound the first which was unuseable b/c X was started off of it. It has since occurred to me that I could have just used Ctl-Alt-Backspace and have killed X rather than having to restart as if it was a Windoze box! I am wondering if there is some stunning technical reason for not having just one more terminal thru which to access bash? Or was it a design decision or would take up too much space?
Instead of bothering the designers about this should I just start X in the background?:

startx &

would that free up my first VT for other things?

ibm5_25

I'll respond to my own post simply to let others know that, yes, using
does work. Although you have to exit fluxbox which will get you to the first VT's bash prompt from which you can start X again and maintain the bash prompt. Maybe I'm the only one interested, but thought I'd let people know what I've found out.