Killing X in Fedora 6

jbudnik · 02-24-2007, 02:39 PM

I brought my Fedora 6 desktop to work today (leaving the monitor at home). I hooked the desktop to my work monitor and then upon startup, when the desktop starts (and X), the monitor goes blank. Easy enough, kill X and reconfigure X for the new monitor. Unfortunately I can't seem to kill X.... ctrl-alt-backspace kills it, but it seems to restart it immediately again. To tell you the truth, I never wanted the desktop to start automatically but I can't figure out how to stop it. Anyway, how to I kill X?

Thanks, John

reddazz · 02-24-2007, 02:47 PM

Hi and welcome to LQ.

At the login manager do, CTRL-ALT-F1, loging to the command line as root and do "init 3". If you do not want to boot into a GUI permanently, then edit /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel from 5 to 3.

PTrenholme · 02-24-2007, 02:48 PM

Do a Ctl-Alt-F1, log in as "root" and reconfigure X.

To start in run level 3 (i.e., no X), add a 3 at the end of the kernel= line in /boot/grub/grub.conf