X windows & Terminal

[Tim]

On Tue, 2007-12-18 at 10:50 +0600, Angel Apocalyptic wrote:
> How can I exit X windows,and start my pc from terminal?I have to exit
> X windows completely.

Pressing CTRL ALT F1 will switch over from a graphical X console to a
text-only console, likewise for using the F2 to F6 keys.  F7 will get
you back to the graphical console (CTRL ALT F7).  X is still running in
the background, however.

To stop X you could issue a "telinit 3" command, and switch down to run
level 3.  You'll need to be the root user to issue that command.  You
can get back to run level 5 by using "telinit 5".  But if you just want
to restart X without changing levels, e.g. to test configuration changes
you've just made, you can type "startx".

> before I tried to edited /etc/inittab file.And set the runlevel 3 for
> starting my  machine on terminal.But it did not work.

That will set the mode the computer boots up in, it won't change the
mode it's currently working in.

-- 
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