> 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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