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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?
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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
Disliking systemd intensely, but not satisfied with alternatives so focusing on taming systemd.
(A works at time B) && (time C > time B ) ≠ (A works at time C)
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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.
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http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Add … on_startup
see the part on runlevels.
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