[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu without booting into X

[Bill Kendrick]

On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 12:18:14PM -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
> No inittab, and runlevel is 2 even with X running. Actually I'd be
> happiest if I could just get KDE 3.5 running instead of 4.2 on Ubuntu
> 9.04, Gnome is going to take some learning for me.

It's available for 9.04:

  https://wiki.kubuntu.org/Kubuntu/Kde3/Jaunty

My wife has 8.10 on her laptop, and we installed KDE 3.5 from a package
source (this was before the KDE 3 remix was available).


> Renaming S30gdm to K70gdm in /etc/rc2.d and starting it with "start"
> seems to be working fine.

Is 'startx' what you want, vs. "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start"?
(i.e., do you get precisely the environment you want?)

-bill!