On Thursday 18 July 2002 11:39 am, J Herzfeld wrote: > I am not sure if this is a newbie or an expert question, so apologies > if I am wrong (anyway I am not subscribed to the newbie list) > > My system (8.2) brings up KDE on boot up. > I'd rather it would stop at the console and not start up KDE or > Gnome or anything. > > After I do my console thing, I'd bring up whatever WM I wanted by > hand. I am anxious to try out some new less resource intensive > WM's. >
You want to start in runlevel 3 instead of runlevel 5. This is covered in the Linux FAQ with Answers. Edit /etc/inittab and change the runlevel to 3 from 5. It should be obvious what to change from looking at the file. -- Hoyt http://www.maximumhoyt.com Fix it until it breaks.
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