Re: How to switch to text mode
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:01:04PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> 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.
Although many folks has come to expect what RH and others do -- provide
different runlevels--Debian so far likes runlevels 2-5 to be setup the
same and let a sysadmin change this if they want. Although various users
and developers have asked for a change from time to time. so, the
default is runlevel 2 and changing it will not make a differnece.
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