an easy one

[Brian Densmore]

Ok now we get to pick on you. ;)

There were several posts that instructed you.

To get to a pure terminal based system:
type telinit 3 from a console. This will kill X and nay process that is
part of runlevel 5 that is not part of runlevel 3.
This will not affect how your system boots, will not modify your inittab
file, will not infect your mind, corrupt your soul, etc.
I've always used init 3, I'm not sure what the difference telinit 3 is.
Either one will work. I'm sure the way I do it wrong and that telinit 3
is
the "preferred" method.

Brian

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J. Eric Gilliland [mailto:patzeric at yahoo.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 2:04 PM
> To: Gene Dascher
> Cc: Linux Users Group KC
> Subject: RE: an easy one
> 
> 
> It automatically boots to KDE wit me as the user. 
> THis is OK and what I want it to do.  I know how to
> change the /etc/inittab file to make it automatically
> boot to the colsole.  I wanted to know how to get back
> to a pure console after having run KDE.
> 
> >Ctrl-Alt and F1 will get you a console.  However your
> >KDE session will 
> >still
> >be up in F7 if you want to switch back to it.  To
> >restart your X-server 
> >use
> >Ctrl-Alt Bkspce.  To completely kill your X session
> >and have only 
> >console
> >you will have to change /etc/inittab and set it to
> >init level 3.
> >
> >Bill
> 
> SO other than setting my runlevel to 3 there is no way
> to boot back to a 'pure' console (by wich I mean no
> xwindows running in the background) after running KDE?
> 
> I guess the COntrol-Alt-Fkey thing will work fine.  I
> generally just open a terminal anyway.  This is more
> for curiosity.  I was wondering if Quake 3 might run
> better if xwindows was not running, but for all I know
> it might require xwindows.
> 
> Thanks for the assistance.
> 
> Eric Gilliland
> --- Gene Dascher <gedascher at multiservice.com> wrote:
> > The default runlevel is defined in /etc/inittab, eg:
> > 
> > id:3:initdefault:
> > 
> > When you cold boot the machine, does it
> > automatically come up to
> > KDE(runlevel 5), or do you get a console login
> > prompt(runlevel 3)?
> > 
> > If that doesn't help, I don't know where to go from
> > there.
> > 
> > Gene
> > >
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