I did a fresh install of 13.04 and I wanted to boot straight into the terminal. So in the /etc/default/grub file, I changed the line
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash"
to
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text"
This worked. However, now when I login and subsequently do "startx"....I see my desktop background, but the launcher and the panel never show up. What do I need to change to be able to startx into Unity when I want to start Unity? Did I do something wrong or is there a better way to boot into the terminal? Any help is appreciated.
startx
to work, you will need an.xinitrc
file. Also.Xauthority
might cause problems here. Better would be to start the display manager.sudo service lightdm start
instead.