How do I boot into text mode, without X?

[Isaac Sparrow]

Hi,

Here is the way I do it.

Create a file in your home dir named '.xinitrc'.
Enter this line in the file:
 gnome-session

Save the file, exit X if you have it up, and type 'startx'.

When you feel like switching back to KDE, your '~/.xinitrc' might look
something like this:

# gnome-session
startkde

HTH,
-- 
Isaac Sparrow     www.concentric.net/~issparow/


 

* Kyle Faber (kyle@emr.net) wrote:
> 
> Red Hat 7.3 includes a great little program called "switchdesk", also 
> available in K -> System -> Desktop Switching Tool if you have a default, 
> full installation.  Run it, tell it what WM you would like next time and then 
> reboot your X Server.
> 
> As for Debian, couldn't tell you if they have switchdesk (My deb CDs are in 
> the mail as we speak ;) 
> 
> Kyle Faber
> EMR Internet.com
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 21 August 2002 02:16 pm, Mark Berkwitt wrote:
> > Good question! Perhaps when someone answers it they can include the
> > solution for Debian Woody as well.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Linux
> > Lover
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 1:58 PM
> > To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
> > Subject: Re: How do I boot into text mode, without X?
> >
> >
> > On a similar vein:
> > When one installs Red Hat 7.3, it asks which desktop manager one wants
> > to use, KDE or Gnome. I selected KDE, but now want to switch it to Gnome
> > so that when I type "startx" Gnome comes up. Right now I'm logging in as
> > root and going to gdm to be able to get the choice.
> > How do I change this at the startx level?
> > Thanks!
> > Mark
> >
> > On Wed, 2002-08-21 at 13:17, BoBB wrote:
> > > On Wed, 21 Aug 2002 12:57:31 -0700
> > >
> > > "Mark Berkwitt" <mberkwitt@cox.net> wrote:
> > > > I'm searching through the index of my copy of "Running LINUX" 3rd Ed.
> >
> > and
> >
> > > > can't find how to boot: into level 3 (I think that's right) thus
> >
> > avoiding X.
> >
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> > > Depends on your distro, most of the "big" distro's stick to having run
> >
> > level 5 as the graphic login runlevel. what you would want to do at the
> > lilo prompt is type 'linux 3'(or whatever the label is for your kernel) to
> > boot to runlevel 3. If you want to boot into run level 3 by default edit
> > /etc/inittab look for a like like this
> >
> > > id:5:initdefault:
> > >
> > > and change 5 to 3. Im not to sure on the facts but i heard you shouldn't
> >
> > change anything else in this file unless you know exactly what your doing.
> > maybee someone more experienced can put in thier $.02 :)
> >
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