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chromatic.glissando
October 10th, 2008, 04:54 AM
Ok...I first got acquainted with linux on a really old laptop with an old version of Red Hat Linux installed. I kind of liked having the terminal login screen...

Is there any way I can get a terminal login screen (no GUI), without sacrificing the automatic boot into GNOME? I'm still kind of unfamiliar with writing boot scripts and such...but is a boot script that loads GNOME after a lower init level is entered a possibility? Or can I edit the init levels in some way for a similar purpose?

Thanks :)

Gregmond
October 10th, 2008, 05:02 AM
Not sure what you are trying to do, if you want to ignore the gui login and just login to a terminal, try Ctrl+Alt+Fx where x = 2 to 7 (F7 is back to the gui), so Ctrl+Alt+F2 will give a different terminal session to Ctrl+Alt+F3.

iponeverything
October 10th, 2008, 05:06 AM
Goto:

System -> Administration -> Services

and turn off GDM