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Manjaro How to Boot to Terminal

If you are running Manjaro and want to know how to boot to a terminal chances are you want to do one of these three things:

  1. Booting to a console as an ordinary user ( no xwindows )
  2. Single user mode as root
  3. Switch to a purely text based console

We’re going to show you how to do all three of these.

Booting to a console as an ordinary user

If you want to boot into pure text based mode with only a CLI instead of xwindows with a graphical desktop environment you can adjust the boot parameters from the grub menu.

Manjaro Single User Mode as Root

You can change the boot parameters from the grub menu to boot into single user mode.

Switch to a Purely Text Based Console

If you are already up and running in a graphical desktop environment with xwindows you can still switch to a pure text based console .

Your system has multiple virtual terminals. You can switch between them with these key combos:

ctrl+Alt+F(1-8)

For example you can switch to a purely text based console on vt3 with this key combo:

ctrl+Alt+F3

The desktop session ( graphical environment ) is generally on vt7. You can switch to that with this combo:

ctrl+Alt+F7