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dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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how can I optionally boot into X?

I've got a laptop which I'd like to boot into X most of the time but also have the option to boot to the command line, how can I do this?

I use grub so I was thinking that it could be through there somehow by passing parameters to the kernel but I don't know what I'd pass or how I would interpret it once booting had started.

Can anyone suggest a way to do it?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 2,961

Re: how can I optionally boot into X?

Put something like this in your ~/.bash_profile :

if [[ -z "$DISPLAY" ]] && [[ $(tty) = /dev/vc/1 ]]; then
  startx
  logout
fi

This will start X when that user logs into console 1 , but goes to command line when logging in on console 2,3,4,5,6 .

Taken from Start_X_at_boot

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Booting with apg Openrc, NOT systemd.
Automounting : not needed, i prefer pmount
Aur helpers : makepkg + my own local repo === rarely need them

dninja

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From: Sheffield, UK

Registered: 2006-04-29

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Re: how can I optionally boot into X?

OK, thanks thats a good solution. I was thinking more of either starting gdm or just command line but this will work just as well.

bender02

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-02-04

Posts: 1,328

Re: how can I optionally boot into X?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Add … on_startup
see the part on runlevels.