Shutting down the Xserver after booting in runlevel 5

zLinuxz · 10-25-2002, 10:39 PM

hi all. I'm wondering if it is possible to completely log out and shut down the graphical Xwindow interface after you started Linux in runlevel 5. ctrol+alt+backspace obviously doesn't shut down the gui interface, it restarts it.
Should this be done by login in through the text interface and then killing Xwindow?, or is this way not the right one, and/or is there another way??
thanks.

neo77777 · 10-25-2002, 11:28 PM

look in /etc/inittab file for a clue on respawing pre-fgm or something along these lines (it should also contain 5 as a runlevel) comment out the line and you are safe to shutdown X by hitting ctl-alt-backspace. I don't remember wht are these lines anymore cause I switch to slackware and gentoo which are defaulted to runlevel 3 and there is no indication of pre-fdm

zLinuxz · 10-25-2002, 11:30 PM

alright, I'll check it out. thanks for the response,

Half_Elf · 10-25-2002, 11:33 PM

Well, I think KILLING the X process should get you in a text mode without restarting X... not sure,don't remember how RH act when you kill his GUI.

aliensub · 10-26-2002, 04:58 AM

In xterm (or whatever console) as root, write:
telinit 3 (or whatever runlevel to get out of x)

aliensub · 10-26-2002, 04:58 AM

This will get you to another runlevel and killing the xserver