suse 8.2

t3___ · 01-13-2004, 02:51 PM

question 1: How can I make my suse 8.2 box boot to a command line instead of into the gui?

question 2: how can I launch KDE/gui from the command line in the event that I want to do work in a graphical environment

question 3: after I am done working in the graphical environment, how can I take down the GUI and get back to a command line only interface without rebooting?

Thanks

willand · 01-13-2004, 02:59 PM

answer 2 : startx, or kde command..

answer 3 : type "init 3" when you are root or ctrl + alt + f1

Texicle · 01-13-2004, 02:59 PM

1. Edit your runlevels. As root, edit (with your favorite text editor) /etc/inittab to use runlevel 3 instead of 4 or 5 (not sure which Suse uses). Any way it should look like this:

id:3:initdefault:

2. type startx
3. in KDE, hit the K (equivalent to windows Start button), select quit or logout or whatever

EDIT: #3 will work after you've done #1 as it will kill X and bring you back to your default runlevel, which will be multi-user command line.

Hope this helps.

acid_kewpie · 01-13-2004, 02:59 PM

run "init 3" to stop X (re)spawning, this can be set in /etc/inittab. at this level you start X usign "startx" and exit it normally.

t3___ · 01-13-2004, 03:09 PM

killer - thanks a million guys...