Fedora Core 3 (exiting the GUI desktop)

Wed Mar 9 19:24:45 UTC 2005

Richard Humphrey wrote:

> startx

Ehh, if he's using the method that Jim Lawrence suggested, then he didn't
actually exit X (the GUI), he just switched to a "text" terminal.  He can
switchback to the X terminal by typing ctrl-alt-f7 (or f8 or whichever one
it was running on).  Someone already mentioned this earlier on the list.

Now if he really exited X by doing ctrl-alt-backspace or "telinit 3", then
startx will start a new X session or X server or whatever the terminology
is.

> 
> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:21:25 -0600, Matthew Benjamin
> <msbenjamin at fedex.com> wrote:
>> That works, now one more question how can I get back to the GUI?
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: jim lawrence [mailto:fedorajim at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2005 11:15 AM
>> To: For users of Fedora Core releases
>> Subject: Re: Fedora Core 3 (exiting the GUI desktop)
>> 
>> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:02:26 -0600, Matthew Benjamin
>> <msbenjamin at fedex.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Can someone tell me a key combination to exit the GUI desktop on Core3
>> 
>> > and go straight to command line?
>> >
>> ALT CNTRL  F1  will put you into  init:3
>> 
>> if you only want the terminal all the time
>> 
>> change your /etc/inittab
>> 
>> id:5:initdefault:    change to
>> 
>> id:3:initdefault:
>> 
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