Re: Console login



Robert Kopp wrote:

> I have SuSE 10.0 with KDE. SuSE uses a graphical login manager by default,
> but I am interested in turning it off while tweaking the display driver.
> That is, I would like SuSE initially to come up with a blank login screen,
> and then you type "startx" to launch a graphical environment. I use Pine
> for e-mail, so I might not even do this the first thing. Anyhow, how is
> this modification done? (Actually, since I always use KDE in a graphical
> environment, the login manager is just eye candy: I don't need it at all.

Go into YAST and use the run level editor to change the default run level to
3, or at the grub boot screen just type in 3 before pressing return to boot
SUSE, then it will stop at runlevel 3 (multi user and networking without
X).

Dave
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