On Saturday 26 March 2005 13:28, Mark Nixon wrote: > On Fri, 2005-03-25 at 23:32 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote: > > On Friday 25 March 2005 23:21, Mark Nixon wrote: > > > Oops, I accidently deleted Stuart's reply. I just tried that, and > > > I still get a little black and white greeter with an analog clock > > > on the right hand side. > > > > > > Mark > > > > for the /etc/inittab trick to work you'll have to leave runlevel 5 > > and reenter it (if you haven't tried this) > > log in on a virtual terminal as root > > init 3 > > init 5; exit > > Stuart > > By a virtual terminal you mean ctrl-alt-F4? yes, or any other text-based terminal.(F1-F6). In fact you *could* do this in an xterm if you wanted, but you'd have to log in again after the 'init 3' > And I should shut down > all running programmes, right? graphical apps, probably yes - to avoid losing any data in files you currently have open. Stuart -- Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX, RTFM, ASAP Any philosophy that can be put "in a nutshell" belongs there. -- Sydney J. Harris
