Gnome help
Rick Stevens
rstevens at vitalstream.com
Thu Jan 20 19:33:23 UTC 2005
Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> I want X to start on my servers, so I can bring up the GUI stuff at times.
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> But I want the console to come up text only. So if for some reason, X
> pukes, the server will still boot.
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> How do I manually (through a file) change the gnome startup to not bring
> up the GUI login, and just bring up the text login, like init 3 would?
You have to tell the machine to boot to run level 3 instead of 5. Then,
if you want X, you do a "startx".
Edit /etc/inittab and change the line:
id:5:initdefault:
to
id:3:initdefault:
There is no way to prevent the GUI login if you boot to run level 5 as
all of the default window managers (gdm, kdm, xdm) first put up a login
screen. The only way around it is to either set up autologin or log in,
"startx", then choose a window manager from there.
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