Console-based login on KDE Linux

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SpectorH85

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Instead of a GUI KDM Login, I would like to have a console-based login after the boot. I looked around and was told to edit the /etc/inittab to change the runlevel from 5 to 3. However, when I go to edit it, it is on runlevel 2, I change it to 3 and reboot. There was no change. I even did the "update-rc.d kdm remove" and there was no change. Can anyone can help me on this. Really appreciate it.
 
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ex_bubblehead

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The simplest way would be to add "startx" to the end of ~/.profile

User will logon to the console and X will be started. Exiting KDE (or whatever GUI is active) will dump right back to the console. If you don't want X to start immediately on login then the user will have to issue the startx command manually.
 
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1991ATServerTower

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There is no such thing as "KDE Linux". KDE is a "Desktop Environment", not a "Linux Distribution". As such, what you would like to accomplish may be done differently depending on your distribution.

Changing the run level exactly as you described works perfectly in the Slackware distro. In Ubuntu it's done a different way, such as

http://virtual-drive.in/2012/05/20/ubuntu-12-04-text-boot/

So what distro are you using?
 
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