You can stop xdm from starting up on boot by going to /etc/rc2.d or whatever your init startup is and change the S??xdm file to K??xdm (?? being the startup numbers), and reboot your machine. Once it is up, you will get your usual login prompt without the graphical candy.
It worked for me without having to go through all the hassle of uninstalling. Cheers, Saranjit Singh. -----Original Message----- From: Anderson, Tim TL33E [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 1:27 AM To: 'Florian Friesdorf'; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: RE: A series of newbieite questions Matthew Dalton wrote: > > ObeseWhale wrote: > > > > > 1. Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux. It give me the > > > graphical login screen and everything. This is annoying because I don't > > > seem to be capable of exiting X... Is there any way to stop Debian from > > > running xdm on startup? > > You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm). > > > Uninstalling xdm is a drastic solution if you still want to X-window, I usually > change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab so that I boot up in text mode and > am still able to to use startx to get into X. >Well, I don't think it's that drastic. >AFAIK you don't need xdm installed in order to use startx. >At least it works for me. >-ff I agree, unless xdm (or gdm, or other clones) has some other purpose that I'm not aware of you would be better off removing it when you don't want the graphical login. Does anyone know if it does anything else? tim -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null
