Re: How do you quit gnome?

["Bruce W. Bigby" <bbigby rochester rr com>]

"Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" wrote:
> 
> akessaris hotmail com (2000-11-03 at 2041.01 -0500):
> > I am trying to recompile my XFree86 so as to provide direct rendering on my
> > video card, and i want to quit gnome.. (ie.. get a text prompt, no windows,
> > nothing)
> > I'm running red hat 7.0, and any help is appreciated.
> 
> Hit Ctrl + Alt + F1, a text login appears. Log in as root, and give
> the command "telinit 3", and it goes into level 3, that in RH is
> multiuser without X. Compile, install or whatever you need, the
> "telinit 5" and it goes to multiuser with X.
> 
> RH is normally set to have 6 text consoles (F1 - F6), and using 3 & 5
> for multiuser modes, with X as difference (no - yes). If you want to
> make changes permanent, read "man inittab", specially the section
> about default level.
> 

Clearer: Linux has 6 run-levels; It uses 3 and 5 for multiuser
configurations.  3 is multiuser without X, although you can use 'startx'
to start X manually after you login.  Run-level 5 automatically starts
X, giving you the graphical login window and starting X when you login. 
The other run-levels are for doing such things as changing to
single-user mode, rebooting, halting the system, etc.

However, Linux also provides 7 virtual consoles, (F1 - F7).  You can
switch between each virtual console with one of the following commands:

CTRL-ALT-F1
CTRL-ALT-F2
...
CTRL-ALT-F7

When RedHat runs X, it installs X on F7.  It is also possible to run
multiple X sessions simultaneously on the other virtual consoles. 
However, I haven't yet personally figured out how to do this one
reliably.  I tried running multiple GNOME sessions from run-level 3 and
it seemed to work at first, but when I logged out of one of them, the
other session died.

Anyway, if you start in run-level 5 (run X automatically), you have 6
virtual consoles left: (F1 - F6).  If you start in run-level 3, you have
7 (F1-F7).

I hope that this helps.

> GSR
> 
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