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lardandweed

Member

Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 32

How to boot directly into CLI

hi all!

what is the best way to

1) boot into command line on cruncheee

and

2) go into GUI from CLI?

anonymous

The Mystery Member

From: Arch Linux Forums

Registered: 2008-11-29

Posts: 9,418

Re: How to boot directly into CLI

I think if you remove GDM, you will have a CLI login instead. After logging in you can run "startx" to go into Openbox (GUI).

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iggykoopa

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Registered: 2008-12-13

Posts: 1,486

Re: How to boot directly into CLI

If you install sysv-rc-conf then run it as sudo you can uncheck all the boxs next to gdm. That way it wont start by default, then when you want the gui you can do:
sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
and you'll get to the login screen.

also if you just want the command line you can hit CTRL+ALT+F1 and it will take you to tty1, then to go back to the gui CTRL+ALT+F7.(thats if you don't stop gdm from starting with sysv-rc-conf)

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lardandweed

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Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 32

Re: How to boot directly into CLI

great! tyvm!

is there a difference between "/etc/init.d/gdm start" and "startx"?

omns

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Registered: 2008-11-25

Posts: 5,131

Re: How to boot directly into CLI

is there a difference between "/etc/init.d/gdm start" and "startx"?

with /etc/init.d/gdm start you get a login screen and with startx you don't

iggykoopa

Script Master

Registered: 2008-12-13

Posts: 1,486

Re: How to boot directly into CLI

also with gdm you can switch between window managers/desktop environments. So if you want to install KDE or Gnome or DWM or whatever you can easily switch between them.

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lardandweed

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Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 32

Re: How to boot directly into CLI

ah ic...

I'm using the gdm method now cuz i can shutdown properly with that. With startx, it goes back to cli, and i have to perform another shutdown from there.

thanks for help all.