On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, 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!). > > To return to your kdm session just Ctrl+Alt+F7, then switch back and > forth as you please.
To go back to the GUI Alt+F7 is all that's needed. Dale Huckeby
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