Start xwindows when boot up

[juno2]

I have just newly install the linux , but everytime when boot up the linux , it will go to xwindows automatically not the shell, how to disable it ? thx

[Kjartan Maraas · Accepted solution]

This is set in /etc/inittab

change startup runlevel to 3 instead of 5 there and you'll get the console instead of X.

[Caesar_3]

Hello!

Just like Kjartan write, but you
can also when you up to xwindows press
and enter to terminal and
by pressing return back to xwin.

Caesar

[Steven E. Protter]

There is a option at install time where you actually get to check a box and decide whether the box boots graphical or not.

There will be more system resources in text mode, which is why I suspect you posted the question.

If you rename the file /etc/rc5.d/S90xfs to anything that doesn't include an capital S at the beginning, the font server won't load and the system will not boot into X.

There is a specific and probably less kludgy way to fix this at http://www.tldp.org

SEP

[Jordan Bean]

As previously stated, if you wish to disable X11 on startup, change the initdefault from 5 to 3 in /etc/inittab.


If you need to down X11 without rebooting, then change the "x" option from respawn to off in addition to the above change. After saving the changes, run `telinit q`.


A word of caution when switching between graphical and text consoles: Only do so at the X login screen. If done while logged into an X session, that session may crash hard and ugly. (Well it does on my Brio running RH8.)