Fedora Core 3 (exiting the GUI desktop)

[Matthew Benjamin]

Can someone tell me a key combination to exit the GUI desktop on Core3
and go straight to command line?
 
mB.

[jim lawrence]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:02:26 -0600, Matthew Benjamin
<msbenjamin(a)fedex.com&gt; wrote:
>   
>  Can someone tell me a key combination to exit the GUI desktop on Core3 and
>  go straight to command line? 
>   
ALT CNTRL  F1  will put you into  init:3 

if you only want the terminal all the time 

change your /etc/inittab  

id:5:initdefault:    change to 

id:3:initdefault:

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[Arthur Pemberton]

jim lawrence wrote:

> On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:02:26 -0600, Matthew Benjamin
> <msbenjamin(a)fedex.com&gt; wrote:
>   
>
> > 
> >Can someone tell me a key combination to exit the GUI desktop on Core3 and
> >go straight to command line? 
> >
> >    
> >
> ALT CNTRL  F1  will put you into  init:3 
>   
>  
Ok, I just hadto say something:
Alt+Ctlr+F1does not exit you to 'the' terminal . It 'switches' you to 
'a' terminal from the main terminal where your GUI is loaded.
Experiment with Alt+Ctlr+F<1 to 10> keys and you'll see what I mean.

You may want to experiment with Alt+Ctlr+Backspace to exit the GUI, i'd 
try it now, but i'm a bit busy.

If you use the Alt+Ctrl+F1 method, use Alt+Ctlr+F7 to get back to the 
GUI as the gui is on screen #7.

Peace

> if you only want the terminal all the time 
>
> change your /etc/inittab  
>
> id:5:initdefault:    change to 
>
> id:3:initdefault:
>
>   
>

[Matthew Miller]

On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:12:17PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>  Ok, I just hadto say something:
>  Alt+Ctlr+F1does not exit you to 'the' terminal . It 'switches' you to 
>  'a' terminal from the main terminal where your GUI is loaded.
>  Experiment with Alt+Ctlr+F<1 to 10> keys and you'll see what I mean. 
While we're correcting people :) there's nothing particularlyy "main"
about
the terminal X happens to be running on.

>  You may want to experiment with Alt+Ctlr+Backspace to exit the GUI,
> i'd 
>  try it now, but i'm a bit busy. 
This generally won't work, since GDM will respawn.


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[Arthur Pemberton]

Matthew Miller wrote:

> On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 02:12:17PM -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>   
>
> >Ok, I just hadto say something:
> >Alt+Ctlr+F1does not exit you to 'the' terminal . It 'switches' you to
>
> >'a' terminal from the main terminal where your GUI is loaded.
> >Experiment with Alt+Ctlr+F<1 to 10> keys and you'll see what I mean.
> >    
> >
>
> While we're correcting people :) there's nothing particularlyy "main"
> about
> the terminal X happens to be running on.
>
>   
>  
sorry, I said main as FC is configured to load X to screen 7 (yes / no 
?) I really should have at least put main in quotes.

> >You may want to experiment with Alt+Ctlr+Backspace to exit the
> GUI, i'd 
> >try it now, but i'm a bit busy.
> >    
> >
>
> This generally won't work, since GDM will respawn.
>   
>  
I thought as much, I really didn't want to try it at the time. I just 
did. And KDM loads up on Alt+Ctlr+Backspace even though you're already 
at KDM
Sorry for the misinfo.
Thanks for the correction.

[Michael Scottaline]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005 11:02:26 -0600
"Matthew Benjamin" <msbenjamin(a)fedex.com&gt; insightfully noted:

MB>Can someone tell me a key combination to exit the GUI desktop on Core3
MB>and go straight to command line?
MB> 
MB>mB.
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Try ctrl-alt-F1.  To get back to the gui, ctrl-alt-F7
HTH,
Mike

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