Quote Originally Posted by firebyrd10
Ok yea I forgot to mention the mouse.

So a window manager is required even for just a command line?

Thanks Stephen.
No window manager or X is needed for the command line what you were describing is X running without a manager not the command line. When you boot without a window manager or X running you just get a login prompt. Then you can login and do whatever you want and if you want too you use startx to start the X server and whichever window manager you have it configured to use.