Re: Exit GNOME login...

[Sydney Weidman <weidmans mts net>]

Andrew O. Mellinger wrote:

> Greetings!
>
>    Is there an easy way to exit the GNOME login back to the console? 
> Is there some special login name, or command sequence?
>
> Thanks,
> -Andrew

If you just want to switch temporarily to a console to, say, execute 
some commands and then return to Gnome and Xwindow, all you have to do 
is press ALT-Fn (press the ALT key at the same time as the function key) 
where n is the number of the virtual terminal you wish to use. By 
default, if I am not mistaken, Red Hat will create 7 or 8 virtual 
terminals. Xwindow typically runs in the 7th or 8th. In order to get 
back to the Xwindow session from the virtual terminal, just use 
ALT-RIGHT_ARROW or ALT-LEFT_ARROW repeatedly until you return to the 
Xwindow session. Note that because the right ALT key is not always 
(ever?) recognized by the virtual terminal in Linux, you must use only 
the ALT key located on the left side of the keyboard.

To stop any X sessions altogether, once in you are in a virtual 
terminal, you can type (assuming you are logged in as root) "telinit 3" 
(without the quotes, of course). That should switch the system from 
graphical to text mode. To make this your default mode (if you are using 
Red Hat or something similar) just change the line in /etc/inittab which 
says:

id:5:initdefault:

to read:

id:3:initdefault:

Hope this helps.