On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 11:00, Joel Grimes wrote:
> Noob question here - and forgive me for ranting, but it's just KILLING me!
>
> How do I get the hell out of X? I've become so frustrated with that
> damned automatic-restart-x thing that i wanted to resort to violence.
> When, out of desparation, I hit ctrl-alt-backspace it keeps reloading
> it. When I do that you'd think it would GET THE POINT THAT I WANT OUT!
> (arg!.... I feel better now)
On Wed, 2004-03-31 at 12:01, Will Backman wrote:
As root, telinit 3
Alternately, if you just want to get to a console (but keep X going in
the 'background'), just Ctrl-Alt-[F1..F6] to switch to one of the
virtual consoles. You can do the telinit 3 from one of the consoles if
you don't want to/can't have a session in X :-)
Ben
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