[Techtalk] Gnome

[Carlo Hamalainen]

On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Rain wrote:
> Can someone please tell me how to stop my computer from booting
> straight into the graphical login, I like to boot into the text login.

Look at /etc/inittab. My system (Redhat) looks like this at the start:

===========================
#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have
networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#
id:5:initdefault:
===========================

Just change the last line to 3 to have it boot into the text console only.

-- Carlo