On 16/04/06, Thomas Taylor <<a href="mailto:linxt@comcast.net">linxt@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Init3 is used to get to a command line interface. The how is from a terminal in a graphical interface. That's in you only want an ocassional cli mode, to make it permanent, edit /etc/initab changing the 5 in the line "id:5:initdefault:" to a 3. HTH Tom -- Tom Taylor Linux user #263467 Federal Way, WA </blockquote></div> Hey mates, If I do edit that line to make it [id:5:initdefault:], then the system will always start with the text, multi-user with networking mode only [runlevel 3], without me having to press Ctrl+Alt+F1... in other words, gnome and GDE in general will not be started... So after I log in to the console using runlevel 3, how can I start the Gnome DE in order to resume graphica functionality? what would be the steps? -- Cheers, A. Helmy ================== One Life... LIVE It ==================