disabling the default X GUI

[Sandra Loosemore]

OK, I'm an old-time Linux user, currently running Red Hat 6.1 on my
laptop and 7.3, I think, on the desktop I use for work. I just
installed Red Hat 9 on a brand-new laptop, and it booted up using some
horrible Windows-clone GUI I don't want to use. How do I uninstall
this so I can log in in normal console mode and use startx with my
normal .xinitrc, etc?

-Sandra the confused

[jbuchana@buchanan1.net]

Sandra Loosemore <sandra@frogsonice.com> wrote:

> OK, I'm an old-time Linux user, currently running Red Hat 6.1 on my
> laptop and 7.3, I think, on the desktop I use for work. I just
> installed Red Hat 9 on a brand-new laptop, and it booted up using some
> horrible Windows-clone GUI I don't want to use. How do I uninstall
> this so I can log in in normal console mode and use startx with my
> normal .xinitrc, etc?

Change this line:

id:5:initdefault:

in /etc/inittab to:

id:3:initdefault:

Then do a "telinit 3".

Then make sure that the WM that you want is loaded, and that you have
the .xinitrc that you want, then try startx.


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[mjt]

Sandra Loosemore wrote:

> OK, I'm an old-time Linux user, currently running Red Hat 6.1 on my
> laptop and 7.3, I think, on the desktop I use for work. I just
> installed Red Hat 9 on a brand-new laptop, and it booted up using some
> horrible Windows-clone GUI I don't want to use. How do I uninstall
> this so I can log in in normal console mode and use startx with my
> normal .xinitrc, etc?

.... an "old time Linux user" and you dont know this? :)
change the default runlevel to "networking, no X" in
your /etc/inittab file (this is normally '3'). a snippet
from the file:

# The default runlevel is defined here
id:5:initdefault:
....^.................try a '3' here
..
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[ne...]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 at 03:13 GMT, [email]jbuchana@buchanan1.net[/email] eloquently wrote:

> Sandra Loosemore <sandra@frogsonice.com> wrote:

>> OK, I'm an old-time Linux user, currently running Red Hat 6.1 on my
>> laptop and 7.3, I think, on the desktop I use for work. I just
>> installed Red Hat 9 on a brand-new laptop, and it booted up using some
>> horrible Windows-clone GUI I don't want to use. How do I uninstall
>> this so I can log in in normal console mode and use startx with my
>> normal .xinitrc, etc?

>
> Change this line:
>
> id:5:initdefault:
>
> in /etc/inittab to:
>
> id:3:initdefault:
>
> Then do a "telinit 3".
>
> Then make sure that the WM that you want is loaded, and that you have
> the .xinitrc that you want, then try startx.

[ADDENDUM] RH has a tendency to use ~/.Xclients-default. Make
sure you check/change this as well.

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[Achim Linder]

On Wed, 10 Sep 2003 01:59:42 GMT, Sandra Loosemore wrote:

> OK, I'm an old-time Linux user, currently running Red Hat 6.1 on my
> laptop and 7.3, I think, on the desktop I use for work. I just
> installed Red Hat 9 on a brand-new laptop, and it booted up using some
> horrible Windows-clone GUI I don't want to use.

Look for a package of your favourite window manager. Which one do you
want? (And start in runlevel 3.)

RH9 doesn't have a good window manager, (there's a sawfish-1.3 package in
rawhide, but the maintainer is a sleepyhead, add this bugfix, posted in
April (sic!), if you want to use it. Click on 1.8 to see the diff).
[url]http://cvs.gnome.org/bonsai/cvslog.cgi?file=%2Fsawfish%2Fscripts%2Fsawfish-menu.jl[/url]

Achim