Re: [orca-list] Do I always need a graphical server/interface?

[Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com>]

Hi Jason,

Thanks for the indepth explanation. I knew Ubuntu had swithed to
Upstart, but I didn't know what anyone else was using. Plus I haven't
felt it necessary to switch to a console login for years since the
Gnome and other desktops became accessible. I simply login to Gnome or
Unity and run whatever console apps I want in a terminal window.

On 6/25/13, Jason White <jason jasonjgw net> wrote:
> Thomas Ward <thomasward1978 gmail com> wrote:
> > Hi Rusty,
> >
> > I'm not sure what distribution you are running, but you can usually
> > change the default runlevel by editing
> > /etc/inittab
> > and change the initdefault line to 3 for a console login, or to run
> > level 5 if you want it to boot directly to a graphical desktop
> > environment.
>
> for distributions that still use System V init, this will work, but for
> most
> distributions these days it won't, as they run Upstart (Ubuntu) or Systemd
> (almost everybody else).
>
> In general, the best solution is to disable gdm. Under Debian this can be
> done
> with service gdm3 stop, followed by chkconfig gdm3 off
>
> Under systemd (e.g., Arch Linux, Fedora, etc.), it's systemctl disable
> gdm.service or something similar, and I don't know what it is under
> Upstart.
>
> Everybody except Ubuntu is moving toward Systemd, so this craziness should
> go
> away. We're in a period of transition at the moment. I don't know what
> Debian
> will do, as they also want to support non-Linux kernels (FreeBSD and
> GNU/Hurd).
>
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