Command Line

bf84 · 09-28-2003, 10:51 AM

I have Red Hat 9 with KDE running right now. Is there a way I can close the GUI and just use a real command prompt? Kind of like in DOS where you can exit Windows and then type 'win' to load it up again. also, does anyone know how i can switch from a graphical login screen to a text prompt there as well?

peace · 09-28-2003, 11:15 AM

To close X (and KDE) try alt-ctrl-backspace.

To always log into text, edit the /etc/inittab file and read the comments at the start. In short, change the default from X11 to Multi-user. If you have any questions on that, come back to this thread.

Good luck!

bf84 · 09-28-2003, 12:20 PM

Neither of those worked. I'm sure it's my fault the login thing didn't work. i'm sure i did something wrong. do i just save it for do i have to compile it or something, and if so, how do i do that? I don't know why Closing X and KDE wouldn't work. Is there a command i can use from the terminal maybe? Thanks

trickykid · 09-28-2003, 12:39 PM

You can always do a:

ctrl-alt-F2 thru F6 to login at a console.

But if you edit your inittab file in /etc to boot to runlevel 3, it will boot to a console everytime, to startx you would just type startx and when you exit, it will bring you back to a console once again.

bf84 · 09-28-2003, 03:05 PM

thanks alot that worked great. the only problem is that when i ctrl-alt-F? to get to a console i can't get back to X or KDE. i typed 'startx' and it told me that display 0 was already running it, but i couldn't figure out how to get back to display 0. sorry i know i nothing about this system. thanks for all the help though.

trickykid · 09-28-2003, 03:23 PM

To get back to X after its already running, you can do a:

ctrl-alt-F7

bf84 · 09-28-2003, 03:42 PM

That works great, thank you so much.

h1tman · 09-28-2003, 09:24 PM

or you can goto /etc/ and change inittab i believe and change the the runlevel so you dont go straight into the gui

boreo · 09-28-2003, 09:49 PM

And if you want use two users at the same time and both with X server running.. You would for example startx to start the first user.. Then change to a consolse Ctrl-Alt-F3 and login with the other user.. And to start the Xserver again for that user you would do something like
startx -- :3
.. And this would start the Xserver for this user.. And to change from user to user you do Ctrl-Alt-F7 to F12

Manny88 · 09-28-2003, 10:14 PM

Go to your GUI terminal window and type in "init 3" That will put you into a straight command line. To go back to GUI type in "init 5" those are just temperary

**Credits for that go to my handy Linux for Dummies on pg 298***

slappycakes · 10-01-2003, 03:48 AM

Thanks boreo. That is exactly what I was looking for. The way to login with multiple X sessions.

Thanks again,
Slappy

boreo · 10-01-2003, 12:35 PM

No problem... Any time...

bf84 · 10-01-2003, 10:21 PM

Most of that worked, but using startx --:3 doesn't work. is there some trick or is that short for something that i don't know?

bf84 · 10-01-2003, 10:30 PM

Nevermind, I'm an idiot and I fixed it. One more thing though: when I do that it loads Gnome and I use KDE is there a way to specify which GUI to load? Thanks again.