On Sat, 2002-10-12 at 17:38, Ron Stodden wrote: > Bill Witherspoon wrote: > > > I would like to stop using kdm, and have my machine boot > > to a shell prompt. How do I stop using a window manager login? > > As root, edit /etc/inittab to change the initial runlevel from 5 to 3. > > Change the line: > > id:5:initdefault: > > to: > > id:3:initdefault: > > Did you know Dept: > > While kdm is running, you can log in to a terminal at runlevel 3 by > pressing Ctrl+Alt+F2 (or F3 or F4 or F5 or F6 - yes you can have 5 > separate terminal logins!).
Technically your still at runlevel 5 until you actually change it, but yes you can get a shell that way too. <crtl>+<alt><F1> works as well to give you 6 glorious terminals to choose from.while F7 and up are "generally" reserved for X servers. I have noticed that F12 on MDK systems seems to be stderr although I haven't looked into that yet. > > To return to your kdm session just Ctrl+Alt+F7, then switch back and > forth as you please. > > > Also, if I do want to start a window manager from the shell, > > I know it's startx. But how do I change the wm that gets > > started? startx gnome? startx xfce? You could set /etc/sysconfigf/desktop to what you like but I think Xtart is what you want. > > That I do not know, sorry...
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