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KitchM

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Registered: 2009-08-15

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Boot to CLI

This may be something of a newbie question, but is there a way to boot to the command line without starting Xfce desktop?

ToZ

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Re: Boot to CLI

You could disable your display manager. This will bring you to a text login screen. Or alternatively, Ctrl+Alt+F2 to get to a console.

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KitchM

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Re: Boot to CLI

What is the best way to do that?

ToZ

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Re: Boot to CLI

For the second option, just press Ctrl+Alt+F2.

For the first, assuming you are running lightdm, then:

sudo systemctl disable lightdm

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KitchM

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Re: Boot to CLI

Thank you.  I appreciate it.