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Re: [PLUG] Newbie -red hat 9 - how do I turn off gnome?
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I believe you want to turn off X, not "gnome". From a virtual console,
enter the command: telinit 3
To prevent X from starting, you must edit the /etc/inittab file and
change the following line...
From: id:5:initdefault:
To: id:3:initdefault:
Next time you boot you'll have no X/GUI/Gnome. Just VCs.
Eric
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:54:11PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 03:34:41PM -0400, Douglas Lentz said:
> > I' m running Red Hat 9 on an old P200 w/64mb RAM and I would like to
> > turn off gnome & X. It's fine with me if I run the box in 100% pure text
> >
> > console mode, using virtual terminals and so forth. But, friends, I
> > think you will admit, they hid it good this time. Tried the Red Hat 7 (I
> > had a book)
> > instructions for stopping gnome, no dice. Sent a kill signal to the X
> > server and it just started up again. Gnome help can't seem to
> > conceptualize why someone would want to turn it off, tried logout,
> > restarting in failsafe mode, unsucessful. Needless to say, box swaps to
> > disk like a maniac.
> >
> > Do I have to do some kernel tweaking on this one? Thanks in advance.
>
> Look in /etc/inittab - I think that's where RH starts things like
> {x,g,k}dm from. Comment the respawn line, and either reload init or
> reboot.
>
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