GUI vs text

[Pedro Gutierrez]

Hi,

You need to edit the /etc/inittab file. I guess you need superuser (or 
root) privileges to do it.

Look for
id:5:initdefault

The 5 indicates the runlevel:

#   0 - halt (Do NOT set initdefault to this)
#   1 - Single user mode
#   2 - Multiuser, without NFS (The same as 3, if you do not have 
networking)
#   3 - Full multiuser mode
#   4 - unused
#   5 - X11
#   6 - reboot (Do NOT set initdefault to this)

To set a text login change the above line to:
id:3:initdefault

You can change it back when you get the memory. From the console you 
can start the GUI with 'startx'

Hope this helps.


On Tuesday, Sep 9, 2003, at 20:32 Europe/Madrid, Patrick Larkin wrote:

>
> Hello -
>
> I installed YDL 3.0 on an iMac with 64MB of RAM.  Obviously, this 
> isn't enough to support the Genome environment so how do I turn the 
> GUI off and work in text mode?  I'd like to be able to easily turn on 
> the GUI later when I get more memory.  Thanks.
>
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