On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 juergen.braukmann@ruhr-west.de wrote:
Ben Rosenberg wrote:
Jon,
If you want to get rid of the GUI login all together and just type startx or not type startx to use a console only..then you can change this in the /etc/rc.config
Yes Ben. Anybody can do that. ;-) I think he is aware of that too. I further think the question indeed aims much deeper: Have the graphical login and select "console" instead of "KDE" as "windowmanager" (This obviously makes sense with KDM only) After login, X shuts down and after logout X and KDM gets restarted. I know this behaviour from HP-UX 10.20 that offers a "console mode" from the graphical login.
What threw me off in his original question was this: "I know that I can get a virtual console (ALT+CRTL+F*) but what I want is to login to the system without X running in the background". That tells me someone wants a non-X init level. The above scenario from Juergen is pretty cool if that's what one is looking for. Greg