On 13 May, Pollywog wrote: > > On 13-May-99 Brian Servis wrote: >> So they(.xinitrc and .xsession) are the same but originated from >> different camps(startx and xdm). The Debian way is to use .xsession. >> To be safe you can soft link .xinitrc to .xsession. > > I dislike having xdm start when I start the machine, so I removed the xdm > stuff from init. Then, much to my surprise, kdm started when I started the > machine, so I removed that from init. All is well now, and I get a plain, > simple console, just the way I like it. > > I will put .xinitrc back, just to be safe. > > thanks >
What you're supposed to do, really, is change the file /etc/inittab and set the default runlevel to 2 ( I think that is the runlevel for non-X startup, and 3 the runlevel for startup with X) :-) Regards and happy hacking, --Tim :-) > > -- > Andrew > > [PGP5.0 Key ID 0x5EE61C37] > > >
