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On Wed, 13 Feb 2002, Michael . wrote: > I used Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to shutdown X but it just turns it off and > starts it automatically.I need to be able to use linux in console mode > instead of always using X. Typing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace doesn't so much "shutdown X" as it causes the X server to exit. To XDM (or its Gnome or KDE equivalent), this is indistinguishable from you logging out, so the proper response is to return to the X login screen. If you generally use X but sometimes need console mode, you can usually switch to a text console by typing <ctrl>+<alt>+F1..Fn. For example, <ctrl>+<alt>+F1 gets you virtual console 1, <ctrl>+<alt>+F2 gets you virtual console 2, etc. If you *always* want to use console mode, then you need to disable XDM. The easiest way to accomplish this is (usually) to boot into runlevel 3 instead of runlevel 5. To change your systems default runlevel, edit the file /etc/inittab. Look for a line like this: id:5:initdefault: And change it to this: id:3:initdefault: You can either reboot the system or just type (as root) 'init 3' to enter runlevel 3. -- Lars -- Lars Kellogg-Stedman <lars at larsshack.org>
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