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[John T Copeland <johnc AT neto.com>]

On Monday 08 December 2003 18:52, Hamish Greig wrote:
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> On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 15:40, John Copeland wrote:
> > I have one system which boots into KDE via KDM, all ok.
> >
> > I have a question.  Is there anyway to revert to the tty console from
> > KDE. Normal logout brings up the KDM shutdown dialog as some of you are
> > no doubt aware.  I would like to basically revert to runlevel 3 from KDE
> > like I can when I come in thru console via startx.  Is it possible?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > JohnC
>
> heehe just messing with you :)
> /usr/share/config/kdm/Xservers is the file provided by kdebase
>
> :0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X vt7
>
> should be in it, I think its the local@tty1 that makes KDM  offer "console
> login" as a choice from the menu widget.
> /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers *might* need its default line changed to mirror the

> KDM supplied line (so long ago I don't really remember)
> It isn't foolproof though, you will need to pkill kdm after logging in or
> kdm/X will just respawn after ~5 minutes
> Hamish

When I added the /usr/share/config/kdm/Xservers line to 
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers, 
the "console login" option was added to the menu and, it worked perfectly 
and, the kdm/X did not respawn even after 15-20 minutes.

I had almost forgotten about this post until I thought about using kdm again 
tother day.  It works, thanks a bunch.

Where yawl at in Australia.  I am in Texas.  I have been to Sydney many times 
when I worked for a living.  I am now retired computer programmer/system 
analyst/senior systems engineer/systems admin.
JohnC


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