[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu without booting into X

Bob Blick bobblick at ftml.net
Fri May 1 16:43:28 PDT 2009


Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:18:14PM -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
>> No inittab, and runlevel is 2 even with X running. Actually I'd be
>> happiest if I could just get KDE 3.5 running instead of 4.2 on Ubuntu
>> 9.04, Gnome is going to take some learning for me.
> 
> It's available for 9.04:
> 
>   https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Kde3/Jaunty

Neat! I'll give it a shot.

> 
> Is 'startx' what you want, vs. "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start"?
> (i.e., do you get precisely the environment you want?)

If I do startx rather than gdm, applications which need superuser creds
won't pop up a password requester. Weird.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,

Bob




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