[techtalk] KDE vs Gnome

Beverly Guillermo bguill at home.com
Tue Oct 12 22:19:08 EST 1999


> In the distro I'm using runlevel 3 is the one you enter X automatically
> from.  The best advice I can give is to look at /etc/inittab -- there
> should be a list of the runlevels that looks something like this:
> 
> 	# runlevel 0 is halt
> 	# runlevel S is single-user
> 	# runlevel 1 is multi-user without network
> 	# runlevel 2 is multi-user with network
> 	# runlevel 3 is multi-user with network and xdm
> 	# runlevel 6 is reboot
> 
> Your runlevels will be different unless you use the same distro I use. 
> I hope that helps.  In my case, if I "telinit 2", X is gone.
> 
> In expanding on this, I mean only to add to what Beverly said -- not to
> contradict her.  AFAIK it is runlevel 5 for X and 3 for no X in the
> majority of distros.

I've seen a runlevel like that in a Solaris environment. =)  I've
never seen that on linux, what are you running?

Beverly

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