[techtalk] KDE vs Gnome

[Gail Allinson]

Beverly Guillermo wrote:
> 
> > 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?

SuSE 6.2 

Take care, Gail

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