On Thu 24 Apr 2025 at 02:14:47 (-0400), Timothy M Butterworth wrote: > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 7:27 PM Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 23, 2025 at 3:02 PM David Wright wrote: > > > I would assume that uninstalling the Display Manager would free up > > > the most resources, but you can probably prevent the DM from being > > > started by stopping, disabling and masking it with systemd. Masking, > > > AIUI, just points /etc/systemd/system/<whateverDM>.service at /dev/null. > > > > Using systemd's multi-user target may be a bit easier: > > > > systemctl set-default multi-user.target > > > > When ready, the gui can be (re)enabled with: > > > > systemctl set-default graphical.target
That looks better. As a non-DE user, my graphical target is empty but for udisks2.service, so I tend to overlook it. > Wouldn't setting runlevel3.target accomplish the same thing? Perhaps, but it's hardly memorable. And, as a long-time Debian user, runlevels 3–5 had no separate existence from 2 in my mind. Cheers, David.
