Starting Gnome from runlevel 3

[Filippos Klironomos]

On 4/19/06, Ali Helmy <alihelmy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 16/04/06, Thomas Taylor <linxt at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Init3 is used to get to a command line interface.  The how is from a
> > terminal
> > in a graphical interface.  That's in you only want an ocassional cli
> > mode, to
> > make it permanent, edit /etc/initab changing the 5 in the line
> > "id:5:initdefault:" to a 3.
> >
> > HTH
> > Tom
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tom Taylor
> > Linux user #263467
> > Federal Way, WA
> >
>
> Hey mates,
>
> If I do edit that line to make it [id:5:initdefault:], then the system
> will always start with the text, multi-user with networking mode only
> [runlevel 3], without me having to press Ctrl+Alt+F1... in other words,
> gnome and GDE in general will not be started...
>
> So after I log in to the console using runlevel 3, how can I start the
> Gnome DE in order to resume graphica functionality? what would be the steps?
>


Giving the  'init 5' command as root will get you cleanly started including
the services associated with
runlevel 5. Otherwise just a 'startx' command should do.
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