On Fri, 14 Jun 1996, Max Hyre wrote: > Martin Alonso Soto Jacome's <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> answer got to > me first: > > > Well, that's exactly what xdm is intended for. xdm tries to keep an > > xserver running permanently, so that you can always login to the system > > using a nice graphical login prompt dialog box. > > ``Oh'', he said in a quiet voice. (I've just started using X under > Linux, and hadn't grasped the differences between startx and xdm.) > > At the time I was tweaking the ModeLines to get the display size > best suited to the screen, and thus was starting and killing X > constantly. Next time, I'll just use startx, and save myself some > hassle.
You can also leave xdm running in the background, and start the server manually whenever you want to use X. Remove the line :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X from the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file, and xdm won't start an X server automatically. You can then use a command like X -query localhost ...to start an X server when you need one. If it's present, it might also be an idea to remove the line xdm-start-server from /etc/X11/config, as if it's present then the X configuration scripts will add the line back to /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers next time you configure or update the X packages. Replace it with no-xdm-start-server, and you shouldn't ever be prompted about xdm starting a server again. Steve Early [EMAIL PROTECTED]
