Oops, should read before I reply. Kenny On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 04:45:09PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > The gentleman said he was running Fedora, not Debian. Fedora does in > fact use runlevels to control whether X starts or not. > - --- > Joseph C. Lininger > jbahm at pcdesk.net > - ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net> > To: "Erik Heil" <eheil at patmedia.net>; "Speakup is a screen review > system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> > Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:20 AM > Subject: Re: How to stop X from starting at logon? > > > > Hi. That answer isn't correct for Debian. Unlike some other > > distros, Debian doesn't make different run levels for graphic or > > text logins. You might not want to answer questions about a distro > > if you haven't used it. > > > > Kenny > > > > On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:53:18AM -0500, Erik Heil wrote: > > > What you need to do is change the system's default runlevel for > > > this to occur. Various runlevels dictate whether the machine > > > will boot into a graphics or text mode UI. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz at comcast.net> > > > To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." > > > <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:36 PM > > > Subject: How to stop X from starting at logon? > > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > I am running Fedora and using a combination of Speakup, BRLTTY > > > > and Gnopernicus. By default when I log in, the gnome desktop > > > > comes up. I > > > would > > > > like to change the setup so that I log into a text mode shell > > > > and manually run the startx command when I want the gui. > > > > > > > > Thanks for any help as to how to do this. > > > > > > > > --Al > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Speakup mailing list > > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Speakup mailing list > > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: PGP 8.0.3 > > iQA/AwUBP9O7gyenap9Jqj2wEQKuOACfc0AG9G/8ngOKl/5pG/EnbD9G5voAoJjS > fDmuBPGSKLP36yIgZ+hyPKDq > =Xozn > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup