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Disabling the KDE
Name: Fred Date: July 29, 2002 at 16:27:17 Pacific
Comment:
I'm new to RedHat Linux and I've installed my system with the KDE as my default boot environment. How can I disable this so that the system boots to the command line instead?
The easy way is: Go to the programs menu, select preferences, system, login manager, and check out the tab for convenience and turn off automatic login.
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Response Number 2
Name: Rich Mitton Date: July 29, 2002 at 17:24:27 Pacific
Reply:
You may also do one of the following:
1) When the lilo prompt comes up you may type:
linux 3 to get into run level three which is for the command line. You will have to do this everytime that you want to use runlevel 3.
2) edit /etc/inittab and edit the line that looks like the following:
id:5:initdefault: to make it look like this.
id:3:initdefault: this will allow you to boot into runlevel three every time.
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Response Number 3
Name: Fred Date: July 29, 2002 at 17:45:37 Pacific
Reply:
Thanks very much for the information! Your help is greatly appreciated.
Summary: Personally I disable the KDE screensavers in the kontrol centre and instead launch xscreensaver on login to X which seems to have many more screensavers to choose from. Have a look by running "xscreen...
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