[Gllug] ubuntu wireless

Stephen Harker steve at pauken.co.uk
Wed Oct 19 09:40:19 UTC 2005


John Hearns wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-10-18 at 23:58 +0100, Jeff Young wrote:
> 
>>Hi
>>
>>I am a newbie and I am learning to use ubuntu 5.04.
>>
>>I have a few problems and they are:
>>
>>A) I couldn't find the shell where I could type in
>>command line from the desktop.
>
> As a learning point, Linux systems do not necessarily have a graphical
> login screen. This only happens when the runlevel is 5.
> At runlevel 3 you get all the same services started, but no graphical
> login. This would be useful if (say) you are running a server and have

Only on DeadRat and derivatives John :-P

On Ubuntu/Debian the default is runlevel 2 and the X server is started 
up by the gdm service (or kdm or xdm).

Stephen
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