Thank you

[Simon Barner]

> Curious, what if I want either option.  In other words, when I boot up the
> machine it shows the gdm login, but if I want a console login can I just hit
> Alt-F2?

Yes. ALT+Fn, n=1, ... 8 will give you virtual terminals, ALT+F9 brings
you back to X.

The virtual terminals are defined in /etc/ttys (it also as a man page:
ttys(5)). Other graphical login managers (like XFree's xdm) are launched
from that file, but for some reason that does not work with gdm (thus
the startup script).

Simon
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