On Fri, 25 Sep 2009 14:35:07 Bryce Stenberg wrote: > Hi, > > > > Can someone please give me a quick pointer to where I stop my machine > booting to the gui? > > I installed Ubuntu server. Then also installed Ubuntu-desktop to get a > gui when I want one. > > But now I can't find where to tell it not to use the gui until I type > 'startx' or something along those lines. > > Being an older machine and setting it up as a server, I only want to use > the gui when I don't know how to do something easily from the command > line. >
Got to your terminal and type: sudo "gedit /etc/inittab" This should give you a blank editor window to work with Type into it: id:3:initdefault and then save If it is not blank find the line: id:5:initdefault and change the five to a three. The part about using the sudo command I'm not so sure about since I don't use Ubuntu much. If it doesn't work check the manual using: man sudo -- Quote of the login: Real Users never use the Help key.