My Ubuntu computer is out in the shop, and I cannot check it right
now, but I found a forum that shows how to do it from the command line:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=843646
Down at the bottom of page 1, and page 2 talks about adding "text" to
the kernel line in grub. I'm sorry if this is not what you are looking
for, for me, it's easier to use the command line.
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On 10/29/2009 05:47 PM, Frank Tkalcevic wrote:
> There is a GUI utility that can enable/disable things. That's how I set my
> system up to boot to a command prompt (then I use startx manually). There
> is an X application, and also a text (curses) based one too, but I can't
> remember their names, or which one did it.
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mark Cason [mailto:[email protected]]
>> Sent: Friday, 30 October 2009 9:39 AM
>> To: Enhanced Machine Controller (EMC)
>> Subject: Re: [Emc-users] EMC2 / OS implementation
>>
>> OK, I haven't messed around with it in a while, so it
>> seems that I'm going to have to relearn everything all over again.
>>
>> I hate it when distro's break with tradition. A decade
>> and a half of experience down the tubes!
>>
>> I'll see what I can google.
>>
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>> On 10/29/2009 02:10 PM, Stephen Wille Padnos wrote:
>>
>>> Mark Cason wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> set the init level to 3 in /etc/inittab
>>>>
>>>> from:
>>>> id:5:initdefault:
>>>>
>>>> to:
>>>> id:3:initdefault:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> That won't quite work. Ubuntu, and most Debian-based
>>>
>> distributions,
>>
>>> no longer have a "multiuser/text mode" runlevel by default.
>>>
>> Runlevels
>>
>>> 2 and 3 are both "multiuser, graphical" levels. Runlevel 3 is the
>>> default in my experience.
>>>
>>> The way to get a non-graphical login is to disable GDM in a
>>>
>> runlevel,
>>
>>> and set that as the initrunlevel. If I remember correctly,
>>>
>> there are
>>
>>> other things that may need to be disabled as well - I just don't
>>> remember which things at the moment.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> and then put startx in ~/.bashrc
>>>>
>>>> echo "startx">> ~/.bashrc
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> I think just running emc should start X, but I'm not sure. I know
>>> that I had seen this behavior before - run a graphical app from the
>>> console, and X is loaded for you. I don't think it exits
>>>
>> automatically though.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> As for setting the windowmanager to fluxbox, it's been too
>>>>
>> long since
>>
>>>> I've messed with windowmanagers.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> You should be able to install something relatively
>>>
>> lightweight, like
>>
>>> XFCE, though I'm not sure exactly how to make that session be your
>>> default. There are almost certainly some tutorials on that
>>>
>> on the web.
>>
>>> You also have the option of installing Ubuntu from the server (text
>>> mode) disc, then installing EMC2 on that. The dependencies
>>>
>> will pull
>>
>>> in X and various other things, but shouldn't bring in things like
>>> openoffice (as far as I know). If you install XFCE first,
>>>
>> that should
>>
>>> be the default session manager.
>>>
>>> - Steve
>>>
>>>
>>>
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