Re: Booting in text mode

On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 03:58:51PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote:
>Hallo
>Having upgraded amd64/gnome to jessie, booting occurs graphically while I want
>graphics to come only when absolutely needed. Also, nautilus of gnome3 is
>absolutely hostile to scientific use as a quick replacement of shell commands.
>Too "intelligent". All that toward mass use, ok, but where is a recipe to boot
>in text mode? My old, simple .Xsession and killing gdm do not work anymore and
>I am short of time for such issues .

The preferred method for this, under systemd is to run:

# systemctl set-default multi-user.target

This should set the default boot mode to non-graphical, multi-user mode.

When you're ready to start graphical mode, run:

# systemctl isolate graphical.target

(You could, of course, try simply running the x-display-manager of your 
choice, but by switching target, any other units that are required for 
graphical mode are also run).

>
>Or give an alternative to replace gnome3 with xfce. The latter on my work
>station allows booting in text mode and its file manager is not too
>intelligent, just useful for scientific use.
>
>Thanks.
>
>francesco pietra
>
>

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