Re: [SLUG] Stopping autostart of X11

From: Eben King (eben1@tampabay.rr.com)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 11:22:11 EDT


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Chuck Hast wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 02:02:29 -0400 (EDT), Eben King
> <eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> > On my laptop (SuSE 9.1), /etc/inittab has
> >
> > id:5:initdefault
> >
> > Is yours different? Change that 5 to a 3 and Robert's your father's
> > brother.
>
> That killed it!

> When I power my notebook up I like it to come up to a cmd promt that way
> if I have stepped away and someone comes up on it, to most people it
> looks so alien that they just press on, whereas if it has a GUI screen
> they may stop and try to log in. Also when the login comes up I will log
> right in without thinking and a lot of times I may want to do cmd line
> stuff, or just leave it at that state.

A text login starts lot faster than a KDE session, too. Sometimes you
just want to log in to check a few things.

BTW, have you got suspend-to-{RAM,disk} working yet? I haven't.

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