Re: [TCLUG:14248] A question so simple it's not in the documentation...

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 09:50:48PM -0600, L . Crisp wrote:
> Okay, I admit it.  It's sad that I can't figure this out.  I have KDE
> running in Mandrake, and the installation set it up to boot straight
> into the gui login.  This would ordinarily not be a problem, except
> now I need to get to the terminal.  How the heck do I exit XWindows
> without going to the gui login?  Or how do I have to boot?
> Just when I start to think I know what I'm doing.....

	Try doing Alt-Ctrl F1.  :-)

	If you already knew about that, try 'init 3' as root after
you've logged into a text console.

	Running 'init' from the command line like that will change the
'run level' of your computer.  This isn't anything terribly fancy.  It
just refers to what things are running and what aren't.  Run level 5 is
everything plus the graphical login.  I'm not sure about 4, but 3 is
full multi-user mode without a graphical login.  I think 2 chops some
services like NFS.  1 is single user mode and has you running only a
root shell.  0 is 'halt', which should be the same as shutting down, and
6 is 'reboot'.

Have fun (if at all possible),
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