Hello, thanks for your reply, but I don't know how to try that neither, still looking into it. Also this is a fresh install and almost all files are default. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc is auto-generated at install with some xterms and an xclock, and /etc/X11/xorg.conf was non-existent (later generated with nvidia-xconfig to try with nvidia-xrun). Another observation is even when x fails to initialize or force closed by pkill, same thing happens.
I think you just proved my hypothesis wrong :) If I understand correctly, your environment is a single terminal + a clock? if so, then exiting the terminal should bring you back to the console. Other questions that could help investigate: - How do you start the startx command? - Do you have maybe an .xinitrc in your home? - startx is normally just a wrapper around xinit, could you maybe look at your process list and see what arguments are given to xinit? That could help investigate. xinit itself takes arguments of the form xinit [client] -- [server] where server is the part to start the X11 server and client is the script to run as user. This is the part that determines what is started (not /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc, which is normally given by startx as a fallback) -- Ismael