Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-28 Thread Joachim Trinkwitz
"ObeseWhale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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? Why

RE: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-26 Thread Saran
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

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
"Anderson, Tim TL33E" wrote: > 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? AFAIK, it doesn't do anything else.

RE: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-25 Thread Anderson, Tim TL33E
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... I

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-25 Thread Florian Friesdorf
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:46:42AM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, 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 > > > se

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-25 Thread Örn
On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, 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 >

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-25 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > > > Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm). > > > > Or disable/remove the symlinks in /etc/rc[0-6].d/. Then you can still > > start manually with `/etc/init.d/xdm`

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-25 Thread Matthew Dalton
Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm). > > Or disable/remove the symlinks in /etc/rc[0-6].d/. Then you can still > start manually with `/etc/init.d/xdm` should you be so inclined. I thought the Official Debian Wa

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-24 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 24, 2000 at 10:14:09PM -0500, Timmy Douglas wrote: > or if you want to keep xdm, insert 'exit 0;' at the top of: > /etc/init.d/xdm Couldn't you customize a little more, and remove the symlink to xdm at a given runlevel, and then use that runlevel? > there should be compile instru

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-24 Thread Timmy Douglas
On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 01:37:11PM +1000, 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

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-24 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Matthew Dalton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-24 Thread Matthew Dalton
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-

A series of newbieite questions

2000-09-24 Thread ObeseWhale
Hi, being a newbie to GNU/Linux I have a few questions... 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 start