Re: How to switch to text mode

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:08:37PM +0000, Glenn Becker wrote:
> 
> >I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of 
> >gui. What am I supposed to do?
> 
> IIRC you need to go into /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/ and mv 'S99gdm' to 'K99gdm' 
> wherever it appears. Same if you see 'S99kdm' anywhere. This will keep the 
> GUI login splash from starting up.
> 

I thought that the gdm/kdm was run from a different runlevel that '2',
like '3'.
I've never used a dm so don't know.  If so, couldn't you just edit the
initdefault line from 3 back to 2 and then do init q?

Doug.