Re: How to switch to text mode
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:42:27PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:02:57 -0800
> Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote:
>
> > Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800
> > > Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > >> LOL. I suppose that's a solution. However, I occasionally do
> > >> some browsing when Googling answers to problems on those machines
> > >> so being able to fire up the gui easily is sort of a must.
If you are just googling for answers and unless you have a _very_ fast
machine, a text browser such as elinks will take you to solutions a lot
quicker than any gui.
After I subscribed to a reputedly fast broadband connection, I didn't
see any improvement over dialup whatsoever as far as _browsing/surfing_
was concerned. Suspected some dns problem, intially .. but no .. it was
just the incredible sluggishness of mozilla's rendering that was the
problem.
And elinks does know how to invoke a viewer for those rare .jpeg's etc.
that might be relevant to the problem/solution..
No popups .. no commercials .. no flash shock waves et al..
Your choice.
> > > And what's wrong with startx?
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andrei
> > >
> > Who said there is anything wrong with it? I didn't. Like I said
> > originally, I guess I just do things a little differently than most
> > do.
>
> There is more than one way to do it, of course :) I was merely
> suggesting an alternative and just 'try startx' would have been too
> "dry" (at the moment I can't think of a better word in English).
>
> Here's another option also relevant for your initial query. Delete the
> symlink for gdm, but only from runlevel 2. If you want gui then just do
> 'init 3'.
Doesn't the magical Ctrl+Alt+F{1-6} key combo take you back to a text
console when you already have an evil *display-manager running on
vt{6-12} .. ??
Or is the OP simply dissatified with xdm, gdm, kdm, wdm, & Co. and has
decided to switch back _for good_ to a more sensible "start X" solution?
Thanks,
cga.
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