Re: getting out of x

[Ben Steeves <bcs metacon ca>]

> On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:00, Joel Grimes wrote:
> > Noob question here - and forgive me for ranting, but it's just KILLING me!
> > 
> > How do I get the hell out of X?  I've become so frustrated with that 
> > damned automatic-restart-x thing that i wanted to resort to violence.  
> > When, out of desparation, I hit ctrl-alt-backspace it keeps reloading 
> > it.  When I do that you'd think it would GET THE POINT THAT I WANT OUT!  
> > (arg!.... I feel better now)
>On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:01, Will Backman wrote:
> As root, telinit 3

Alternately, if you just want to get to a console (but keep X going in
the 'background'), just Ctrl-Alt-[F1..F6] to switch to one of the
virtual consoles.   You can do the telinit 3 from one of the consoles if
you don't want to/can't have a session in X :-)

Ben
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