Re: Console login

From: Cord Walter <news_0106@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 10:30:12 +0100

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.

edit /etc/inittab with your editor of choice and set the line

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:5:initdefault:

to

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:3:initdefault:

-cord
.

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- Console login
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