Leave X session

KHAAAN · 07-05-2004, 09:00 PM

I know there was a command to leave the X session, but I forgot what it was.....

Tinkster · 07-05-2004, 09:13 PM

Hi Khaaan,

can you elaborate on what you mean, try to achieve?

Loging out of a WM? Kill the X server alltogether?

Cheers,
Tink

KHAAAN · 07-05-2004, 09:29 PM

I just want to leave the WM to go to the console so I can load XPde. Nothing permanent, though.

Tinkster · 07-05-2004, 09:32 PM

A reasonably distro-independent way of doing that
should be:
init 1

Cheers,
Tink

KHAAAN · 07-05-2004, 09:33 PM

Sez: command not found

Would it help to say I am in Mdk 10?

Tinkster · 07-05-2004, 09:37 PM

Did you try as root, or as normal user?
If init doesn't work, try telinit ...

Cheers,
Tink

KHAAAN · 07-05-2004, 10:12 PM

I tried those as root, and wasn't what I expected.... I tried "startx" but didn't get me back to X. Whatever it was, I know that startx got me back into the GUI.

Tinkster · 07-05-2004, 10:16 PM

init 5 would do this in this case ...

As for the distro: there's soooo many different
distro's out there, with fairly varied ways of setting
X up, that it's actually alost impossible to guess how
to definitely terminate X. Killing kdm (gdm, xdm) first,
and then doing Ctrl-Alt-Bskp MAY get you to a prompt.
On other distro's it may not.

Cheers,
Tink

KHAAAN · 07-05-2004, 10:22 PM

OTOH, it may have been on an older version of Mdk, or when I had RH on it.