Exit X

Risetaker2003 · 09-30-2003, 07:43 PM

Maybe some body can help me? How do I exit X once I login as root user? And how do I browse to the home dir of the root user so I can execute the nvidia run file once I'm in text mode?

Thymox · 09-30-2003, 07:51 PM

To leave X you can press <CTRL>+<ALT>+<BackSpace>. This kills the X server/client (which, I can't remember). If you boot to a GUI login by defeault then the chances are that it'll take you back to your GUI login.

A better way, however, would be:
Edit (as root) the file /etc/inittab. Change the line id:5:initdefault: to id:3:initdefault:. Run the installer program, edit your X config file accordingly and then test it by typing startx. If all is OK, then re-edit the /etc/inittab file and change the 3 back to a 5. If you want, reboot - or, since this is Linux - type init 5.

Hope this helps.

viniosity · 09-30-2003, 08:00 PM

You don't say which distro you're using, but the above won't work for Debian. Debian nicely relaunches X after you hit <CTRL> + <ALT> + <Backspace>. Also, changing the init level in /etc/inittab won't work either. The command you have to use in Debian is a little uglier:

update-rc.d -f xdm remove && update-rc.d xdm start 99 3 4 5 . stop 99 0 1 2 6 .

This will allow you to reboot your machine to the command line. I assume if you want to reverse it you would swap the 'remove' for 'add' (though I haven't tested that.)

Thymox · 09-30-2003, 08:06 PM

So, under Debian you can't edit your inittab file and run init 3 either? I can appreciate that pressing CABackSpace will simply relaunch the login (as I said above) but I think that has more to do with XDM than Debian.

Risetaker2003 · 09-30-2003, 08:08 PM

Redhat

mossy · 09-30-2003, 08:10 PM

to simply "exit X once I login as root user" you can click on the start [kicker] and logout.

if you are in a console or in text mode you can type:
logout
which will out of root mode.

when you login to any userid it will automatically start off in it's home directory - this includes su/root.