Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:04:14AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:46:57 -0800 > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > The reason I wouldn't run a gui by default is that these old machines > > don't have a lot of memory in them, and a gui eats a lot of resou

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-08 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:04:14AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > If all you need is browsing, the fastest start you can get is xinit > with your browser instead of an xterm (I don't remember what config file > to change, maybe .xinitrc?). But you won't be able to run anything else. > A more flexib

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:46:57 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can tell the difference in browsing speed on my machines if my > ISP's network gets congested, with Mozilla or Firefox. If browsing > slows down to anywhere near dialup speeds I can ping the local > gateway for a

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
cga2000 wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:42:27PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:02:57 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LOL.

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 2/7/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:22:32PM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > this file should be found in the /etc/rc3.d/ > > and then restart your PC, if you later want your xfce back just edit the > /etc/inittab again > and change your line > id

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:22:32PM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote: > this file should be found in the /etc/rc3.d/ > > and then restart your PC, if you later want your xfce back just edit the > /etc/inittab again > and change your line > id:3:initdefault: > to > id:2:initdefault: > > with this li

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 2/6/07, myusernet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do? Hi, just, go to the /etc/inittab and change this line id:2:initdefault: for this id:3:initdefault: then rename your file SXXgdm or SXXkdm or SXX

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread cga2000
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:42:27PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:02:57 -0800 > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800 > > > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >> LOL. I su

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:02:57 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800 > > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >> LOL. I suppose that's a solution. However, I occasionally do > >> some browsing when Goo

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: LOL. I suppose that's a solution. However, I occasionally do some browsing when Googling answers to problems on those machines so being able to fire up the gui easily is sort of a must.

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > LOL. I suppose that's a solution. However, I occasionally do some > browsing when Googling answers to problems on those machines so being > able to fire up the gui easily is sort of a must. And what's wrong wit

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Freddy. Freddy Freeloader, 07.02.2007 17:18: Paul E Condon wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: I use 'apt-get remove gdm'. When it is not installed, it surely will not run at startup ;-). If you do use this approach, you

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Freddy. Freddy Freeloader, 07.02.2007 17:18: > Paul E Condon wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: >> >> I use 'apt-get remove gdm'. When it is not installed, it surely will >> not run at startup ;-). If you do use this approach, you need to make >> sure

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-07 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Paul E Condon wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Glenn Becker wrote: Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^) I'd say - no. Okay! :^) to remove: #update-rc.d -f gdm remove to re

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote: > Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Glenn Becker wrote: > > > >>> Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^) > >> > >> I'd say - no. > > > > Okay! :^) > > > >> to remove: > >> #update-rc.d -f gdm remove > >> > >> to restore: > >>

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Francis Healy
Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:Glenn Becker wrote: > >>> Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^) >> >> I'd say - no. > > Okay! :^) > >> to remove: >> #update-rc.d -f gdm remove >> >> to restore: >> #update-rc.d gdm defaults > > I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess. > >

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:01:04PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:08:37PM +, Glenn Becker wrote: > > > > >I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of > > >gui. What am I supposed to do? >

Re: How to switch to text mode (correction)

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:55:46PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote: > Although this way is quite fast, one would have to do it again > everytime an upgrade of [gkwx]dm happens, since there will be no > symlinks in /etc/rc*.d. But if there were K[gkwx]dm links in > the appropriate /etc/rc*.d invoke-rc

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:08:37PM +, Glenn Becker wrote: > > >I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of > >gui. What am I supposed to do? > > IIRC you need to go into /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/ and mv 'S99gdm' to 'K99gdm' > wherever it appears. Same if you see 'S99kdm' a

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:03:43PM +0200, Atis wrote: > [...] > to remove: > #update-rc.d -f gdm remove > [...] Although this way is quite fast, one would have to do it again everytime an upgrade of [gkwx]dm happens, since there will be no symlinks in /etc/rc*.d. But if there were K[gkwx]dm links

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Glenn Becker wrote: Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^) I'd say - no. Okay! :^) to remove: #update-rc.d -f gdm remove to restore: #update-rc.d gdm defaults I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess. G +-+ Glenn Becker - [

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:21:36PM +0200, Atis wrote: > On 2/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:44:33PM +0800, myusernet wrote: > >In your case, if you're using gdm: > > > >update-rc.d -f gdm remove > > > >this will remove all the symlinks to gdm in

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Atis
On 2/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:44:33PM +0800, myusernet wrote: In your case, if you're using gdm: update-rc.d -f gdm remove this will remove all the symlinks to gdm in all the runlevels so that gdm will not start at boot-up. If you want to

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:44:33PM +0800, myusernet wrote: > I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do? While all the others have provided you with various solutions... here's the easy one... ;-P There is a command -- update-rc.d -- th

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Glenn Becker
Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^) I'd say - no. Okay! :^) to remove: #update-rc.d -f gdm remove to restore: #update-rc.d gdm defaults I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess. G +-+ Glenn Becker - [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Atis
On 2/6/07, Glenn Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whereas this will work (assuming you're using gdm or kdm instead of xdm > or wdm), you'll have to do this for each runlevel. > > I find it easier to temporarily disable [gkxw]dm by editing > /etc/init.d/[gkxw]dm and putting the single line "ex

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Glenn Becker
Whereas this will work (assuming you're using gdm or kdm instead of xdm or wdm), you'll have to do this for each runlevel. I find it easier to temporarily disable [gkxw]dm by editing /etc/init.d/[gkxw]dm and putting the single line "exit 0" as the first non-comment line in the script (or, fo

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Kent West
Glenn Becker wrote: I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do? IIRC you need to go into /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/ and mv 'S99gdm' to 'K99gdm' wherever it appears. Same if you see 'S99kdm' anywhere. This will keep the GUI login splash from st

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: What you do is purge the packages gdm, xdm & kdm. You'll only have one of them installed, but I list them all just to be comprehensive. Not quite "all"; wdm is also a possibility; perhaps others. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Glenn Becker
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do? IIRC you need to go into /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/ and mv 'S99gdm' to 'K99gdm' wherever it appears. Same if you see 'S99kdm' anywhere. This will keep the GUI login splash from starting up. GB +---

Re: How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/07 08:44, myusernet wrote: > I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console > instead of gui. What am I supposed to do? Congratulations on your brave adventure! Many of us have taken this road to True Geekdom and have never look

How to switch to text mode

2007-02-06 Thread myusernet
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui. What am I supposed to do?