Enable/Disable GUI on bootup

[Anthony Messina]

David C. Chipman wrote:
> 	Hi Tim, 
> 
> 		Go into /etc/inittab, and change the initdefault line so that the middle field is a 3, instead of a 5. Then re boot, and use the command 'startx' when you want to use the GUI. I hope that answers your question, 
> 
> 			-David Chipman
> 
also, booting into runlevel 3 then doing "startx" is not the same as 
booting into runlevel 5: other services that are only configured to run 
in runlevel 5 don't start that way.

if you need to boot to runlevel 3, then switch to runlevel 5, do 
"telinit 5" from the runlevel 3 command prompt.

man telinit

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