--- Paul Sutton <zen14920@zen.co.uk> wrote:

so typing init 3 changes to level 3 by starting / stopping various servies , typing init 5 does the same for runlevel 5. If you are in level 3 you can no longer type ctrl-alt-f7 to switch back to X, however at the prompt you can type

The only caveat with that is if any specific services are started in one runlevel and not another, then it won't be persistent -- which is not going to be a good thing if it is something important. Hence: /etc/init.d/xdm stop Remains in the same runlevel, and no harm done.

for the record, runlevels 3 and 5 are multi user and multi user with X respectivley.

Under most distros this is true -- but not for Debian.

startx to start X, and therefore typing ctrl-alt-backspace will kill the xserver / window system and return you to a console. you can then re-configure X to change and and try running startx again. There should be a xf86config file that contains the settings and an X set up utility, however I am not sure what they are called anymore, since they moved to x.org, I assume not much has really changed.

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