Exiting GDM, switching runlevels ?

[Michael Scottaline]

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 16:03:49 +0100, Vincent Trouilliez
<vincent.trouilliez at modulonet.fr> wrote:
<snippage about going from recovery mode to gnome proper>
> Now the opposite problem : say I am in "normal" mode, under Gnome. I do
> some stuff, then log-out of gnome. How can I exit X/GDM and return to
> the command line only ? In GDM there are options to reboot, power off,
> log-in, but no option to exit GDM/X itself and return to a command line
> only interface.
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If you find yourself doing this often enough, why not change your
default run level to 3 instead of 5 in /etc/inittab.  When you login
in there's just the one extra step of typing gnome-session, I think to
launch gnome normally.  then if you log out, you're automatically back
to textmode.
Of course you might also bounce between them by using ctrl-alt-F1
(-F6) and them back to gui with Ctrl-alt-F7.
Best,
Mike
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