[Cialug] X server

[Barry Von Ahsen]

nice,

some linux gaming geeks came up with this too - they figured out you 
could boot straight into doom/q3a/whatever and get that extra 1.3 fps 
for maximum n00b pwnage


for your next question, I'd suggest what josh said - most distros use 
runlevel 3 for text and 5 for gui sessions, you could abuse 4 (or create 
your own run-level) for the "mostly text, but limited gui" session. 
you'd just need to create the symlinks to start the daemons you want, or 
use your distro's tool.  it might be enough to just turn off gdm/kdm but 
still have the xserver running.  for redhat-ish systems you could do

#chkconfig --level=4 gdm off

there's probably a pointy-clicky gnome tool to do it too, but I would 
still use the terminal :)


-barry



Mathew R. Phillips wrote:
> So my next question would be how would i go about figuring out the minimum daemons i would need to get networking and x server running. Sorry im not trying to get someone to spoonfeed me I tried googling but i think i don't understand linux under the hood enough yet to know what to search for even.
> 
> Matt
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Josh More [mailto:morej at alliancetechnologies.net]
> Sent: Wed 11/4/2009 8:28 AM
> To: cialug at cialug.org; Mathew R. Phillips
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] X server
>  
> Under SUSE, you just configure runlevel 4 to do what you want.  Then, at
> the default boot screen, you add "4" to the kernel options and it does
> what you want.  You could go all out and create a GRUB menu option, but
> I've never bothered.
> 
> The same should apply to the other distros, but the specific runlevel
> you use may change.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -Josh More, RHCE, CISSP, NCLP, GIAC 
>  morej at alliancetechnologies.net 
>  515-245-7701
> 
>>>> "Mathew R. Phillips" <mathew.phillips at wartburg.edu> 11/04/09 8:24 AM
>>>>
> 
> Last night my dad and I figured out how to run a single application on
> an xserver without having a desktop. I know that you could setup one of
> the runlevels to only start the x server so one could do this. But i
> still want my default runlevel to be the full desktop environment. but i
> was wondering if it was possible to set something up so that you could
> select an option from the grub menu that would just boot up an x server
> and start firefox for example instead of having to go through changing
> the runlevel once its already booted. I don't know how many times i
> shutoff my computer and then realized i had to boot it all the way up
> into the desktop just to check an email. It would be pretty handy to
> just boot to firefox and not start up kde or any of the other daemons
> other than networking of course.
> 
> Matt
> 
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