On Thu, Sep 5, 2013 at 10:10 PM, Gregory Nowak <g...@gregn.net> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 05, 2013 at 03:55:51PM +0530, Anubhav Yadav wrote: > > This was already mentioned. The answer is ctrl+alt+f1 through > ctrl+alt+f6 by default. Let me clarify. Unlike in some other > distributions (slackware comes to mind), there is no such thing as > booting into text mode, since gdm starts up in run levels 2-5, as do > your six text consoles by default. So, you actually have both the > graphical environment and text mode available to you at the same > time. The only way to have truly text mode would be either to disable > gdm and start x through running startx, or uninstall the graphical > desktop totally. Since both text and graphical modes are available to > you anyway, there is no reason to do that if you just want to work at > a text console. For the sake of completeness, I will mention run level > 1 which is text mode in a single console. You don't want to stay in > run level one all the time for everyday use though. Kind of drawn out, > but it hopefully clears things up. In a nutshell, there's no such thing as > text > mode in debian.
If you append "text" to the kernel commandline, you'll boot into text mode, similar to an RH-based runlevel 3. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAOdo=swh+b94p8fh3b7q_hghzw-h0-r5s7embb2nwedzedo...@mail.gmail.com
