Switching from xwindow to commandline

[matrixtlm]

Hie all,

I have installed RHEL 3 on VMware. I selected GUI start up during the installation. So now, everytime i start up Red Hat it will start in GUI.

But how do I switch it to Command Line Interface ? I try using the shortcut key - CTRL + ALT + F7, but is not working.

I do understand that there is a terminal window in GUI. But my intention is to switch to the command line interface.

Need some guidelines here...i'm new to Linux...

Thanks.

[kyku]

I'm not sure if this the source of the problem but Ctrl-Alt-F7 is rather unfortunate if you have 6 terminals, i.e. the shortcut is used to take you back to XWindows (the GUI). Try pushing Ctrl-Alt-F1 .. Ctrl-Alt-F6, this should work.

[cjl7]

Hi,

I don't know if I got this right but the problem is in your vmware session?!

I think only ALT+F1-F6 works, hitting CTRL+ALT just makes you leave you vmware session right?

Cheers

Jonas

[Sashauki]

Ctrl+alt+F1 ............... Ctrl+AltF6 are tty console from 1to 6 and You can back on Xwindows by pressing Alt+F7


Buy

[wassy121]

You could make it boot into text-mode only by default by opening an xterm, and editing /etc/inittab and changing:

id:5:initdefault

to:

id:3:initdefault

I am sure that is not right, but I don't have a SysVInit style machine handy. Either way, the initdefault, change it from 5 to 3. Then in the xterm, you can type 'telinit 3' to change to runlevel 3 automatically, turning off X.

Best,

Samuel

[Stormblazer]

You can switch from X to console by entering "init 3" in any terminal (like xterm), although I think you have to be root (just enter "su" and enter the password for root)

[n0tt00elite]

if I have fluxbox running in tty7, and then switch to tty6, for example, could I then start GNOME in tty6 while fluxbox is still running in tty7? That would be amazingly useful.

[Stormblazer]

I don't think you can run a GUI in consoles 1-6, but I did get two X sessions by running first the normal one, then running gdm on screen 1 (console 8 ).

[beama]

try ctrl + backspace that should stop the X session and take you back to the command line then to restart your X session type in startx