how do i change my boot options? i want to boot in text mode rather into X i am useing redhat 9

change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab from 5 to 3. cheers

ok great thats what i needed. now if i start kde from a command line and then i want to exit it how would i do that?

carey

Hi techhost,

this is very simple - just rightclick on the desktop and choose "Logout <username>" from the context menu. The click on the Ok button in the small dialog box and you're off your KDE.

Kind regards,
sbogus

and this will drop me back to text mode?

Yes. So will ctrl+alt+backspace or opening a terminal window and typing "telinit 3" (but don't do that,it'll log you out too.

You'd only stay in GUI if you have a desktop manager running like KDM, GDM, or XDM, which you don't.

cool thanks alot

hey, when i use

startx i boot into my gnome desktop.. how do i boot into KDE?

try "startkde"

ouch. errors:
on input 'startkde'
output:

rm: cannot remove '.' or '..'
rm: cannot remove '.' or '..'
xsetroot: unable to open display ''
xrdb: cannot open display ''
xset: unable to open display " "
startkde: Starting up...
kspalsh: cannot connect to X server
kdeinit: Aborting $DISPLAY is not set
Warning: connect() faild: no such file or directory
Error: Cannot contact kdeinit!
unix_connect: cant connect to server (unix:/tmp/mcop-root/WinXP-RH9-0c0e-40d0984c)
startkde: running shutdown scripts
startkde: done

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umm... what to do?

and yeah i'm sure i installed KDE when i installed the OS

command : which kde
answer : locationofkde
kde launch : startx /kdelocation/startkde --:0

which startkde instead of which kde

ahimsel08, type in this:

It should have one in there called kde. If it does not, you don't have KDE installed yet. It appears that you don't but that should help make sure. Like this:

Oh, that is <lower case L>s - <lower case L><space> /usr. They look like the number one somethimes. Newbies, I was one at one time, get that confused and it won't work.

Later

That command may execute if its in your .xinitrc file. See if you have one in your home directory (ls -a). Edit it by adding "exec startkde" and save. That may work.

nope, no kde when doing that command