Hi. Your answer won't work in Ubuntu. In the Linux world, it's best to only answer questions about distros you are actually running. Kenny On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:09:02PM -0000, Chris Norman wrote: > You may as well just put runlevel 3 as your default in /etc/inittab. Then > just run startx (I think) to run the GUI, and use control+alt+f1 to switch > to the first console. X runs on tty7, so just use altf7 to run the gui > console. DOn't know how you'd stop it. Run `init 3` I imagine.