OK, I haven't messed around with it in a while, so it seems that I'm
going to have to relearn everything all over again.
I hate it when distro's break with tradition. A decade and a half of
experience down the tubes!
I'll see what I can google.
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On 10/29/2009 02:10 PM, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
> Mark Cason wrote:
>
>
>> set the init level to 3 in /etc/inittab
>>
>> from:
>> id:5:initdefault:
>>
>> to:
>> id:3:initdefault:
>>
>>
>>
> That won't quite work. Ubuntu, and most Debian-based distributions, no
> longer have a "multiuser/text mode" runlevel by default. Runlevels 2
> and 3 are both "multiuser, graphical" levels. Runlevel 3 is the default
> in my experience.
>
> The way to get a non-graphical login is to disable GDM in a runlevel,
> and set that as the initrunlevel. If I remember correctly, there are
> other things that may need to be disabled as well - I just don't
> remember which things at the moment.
>
>
>> and then put startx in ~/.bashrc
>>
>> echo "startx">> ~/.bashrc
>>
>>
>>
> I think just running emc should start X, but I'm not sure. I know that
> I had seen this behavior before - run a graphical app from the console,
> and X is loaded for you. I don't think it exits automatically though.
>
>
>> As for setting the windowmanager to fluxbox, it's been too long since
>> I've messed with windowmanagers.
>>
>>
>>
> You should be able to install something relatively lightweight, like
> XFCE, though I'm not sure exactly how to make that session be your
> default. There are almost certainly some tutorials on that on the web.
>
> You also have the option of installing Ubuntu from the server (text
> mode) disc, then installing EMC2 on that. The dependencies will pull in
> X and various other things, but shouldn't bring in things like
> openoffice (as far as I know). If you install XFCE first, that should
> be the default session manager.
>
> - Steve
>
>
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