Re: Gnome help

[Rick Stevens <rstevens vitalstream com>]

Waldher, Travis R wrote:
> I want X to start on my servers, so I can bring up the GUI stuff at times.
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> But I want the console to come up text only.  So if for some reason, X 
> pukes, the server will still boot.
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> How do I manually (through a file) change the gnome startup to not bring 
> up the GUI login, and just bring up the text login, like init 3 would?

You have to tell the machine to boot to run level 3 instead of 5.  Then,
if you want X, you do a "startx".

Edit /etc/inittab and change the line:

	id:5:initdefault:

to

	id:3:initdefault:

There is no way to prevent the GUI login if you boot to run level 5 as
all of the default window managers (gdm, kdm, xdm) first put up a login
screen.  The only way around it is to either set up autologin or log in,
"startx", then choose a window manager from there.
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