how to boot without X

[jeb bolding]

My requirement for this is more basic. I don't like
either Gnome or KDE. I use Enlightenment and now I
have to open the failsafe terminal and from there type
in the WM command for Enlightenment. I'd rather boot
to a prompt, edit my .xinitrc file and run a
startx...and thus, be done with it.

jeb


--- Hudson Delbert J Contr 61 CS/SCBN
<Delbert.Hudson at LOSANGELES.AF.MIL> wrote:

> matt,
> 
> 	i dont dis-agree that the gui is hear to stay in
> some form or
> fashion but i cant tell you how many times
> 	its saved my bacon.
> 
> 	this is not a flame but text runlevels are not a
> holdover from linux
> but from even older unix which i really don't
> 	think was or is a problem. 
> 
> 	look,  we all dont use our desktops for the same
> reason.....even on
> windoze, sun, sgi the cmd line is always useful
> 	and is usually a LOT more responsive to commands
> the a gui.
> 
> 	because ubuntu is so easy to install the idea of
> using as a firewall
> or netsec platform appeals to me and i 
> 	would like to kill X at will on such a box but use
> it when needed.
> 
> 	even winsucks recognizes the need for text entry.
> 
> 	versatility and flexibility are the life blood of
> linux.
> 
> 	i think a compromise would still usefull....
> 
> 	besides a gui is a lot more code heavy then a cmd
> line and netsec
> 101 states that the smaller the code logically
> 	the less chance of insects or unwelcome visitors.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com
> [mailto:ubuntu-users-bounces at lists.ubuntu.com]On
> Behalf Of Matt
> Zimmerman
> Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 3:09 PM
> To: Ubuntu Users
> Subject: Re: how to boot without X
> 
> 
> On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 05:58:54AM +0800, John
> wrote:
> 
> > There are other reasons to not run a
> display-manager at boot. Some like 
> > a GUI on their servers, but that's not to say they
> want to start a 
> > display manager on boot. Most of my servers are
> headless, but a GUI 
> > login is possible using VNC.
> 
> Servers should use a custom install, not the desktop
> install, and so they
> won't have a display manager installed by default
> (or indeed, even an X
> server).
> 
> On a desktop, the display manager should always
> start except (optionally) in
> a recovery situation.
> 
> Servers have no need for a display manager in the
> first place, but if you
> install one, it should start by default.
> 
> The concept of a "text-only" runlevel is a holdover
> from early days of Linux
> when the graphical environment was often too heavy
> for commodity hardware,
> and the user community had a much more traditional
> UNIX flavor, and so many
> users preferred to work from a command line on the
> text console unless they
> needed to use something exotic like a web browser.
> 
> -- 
>  - mdz
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