Re: [SLUG] Stopping autostart of X11

From: Chuck Hast (wchast@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 07 2004 - 14:26:44 EDT


On Thu, 7 Oct 2004 11:22:11 -0400 (EDT), Eben King
<eben1@tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Have not tried it yet. I do not worry about suspending it too much seems
that even under the OS of the evil empire that is a goat rope.

-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."
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