temporarily disabling GUI login

Benjamin J. Weiss benjamin at weiss.name
Mon May 24 19:38:59 UTC 2004


From: "Paul Greene" <techlists at comcast.net>
> Doing a CTRL-ALT-backspace to shut down X windows just drops me back 
> into another GUI window. I haven't been able to figure out how to 
> temporarily disable a GUI login. I'm sure it's fairly easy, but can't 
> figure out how to do it.

edit /etc/inittab and change:

id:5:initdefault:

to

id:3:initdefault:

then reboot.

Ben





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