Richard S. Crawford wrote:
Is there an easy and painless way I can shut down X before I leave on
business trips, and start it back up again when I'm at home, without
having to reboot the machine?

Switch to a non-graphical console using [Alt][F2] then login as root and issue the command: telinit 3


That will take the system to runlevel 3 (graphical login is typically runlevel 5).


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