Re: inittab and graphical login

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Paul" == Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:

    Paul> On Mon, Oct 21, 2002 at 11:47:42AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh
    Paul> wrote:
    >> id:2:initdefault:
    >> 
    >> i thought with this, i will get a text login. but i always
    >> end-up in gdm!!

    Paul> No, no.  You're thinking Red Hat runlevels.[1]

    >> how do i stop this? i will like to have text login prompt.

    Paul> Go into /etc/rc2.d and mv S99gdm K99gdm and this should
    Paul> prevent gdm from starting up.

IMHO this is a better way (and more correct) than apt-removing gdm.

You should do the same for S99kdm and S99xdm if you have them. This
way you can always change your runlevel to 2 for text logins, and use
the others for normal X logins if you ever want to. If you remove gdm
you lose that option.

BTW, in Debian all multi-user run levels are set up to be the same by
default. You are supposed to customize them as you need. You should
read the policy manual if you are interested in details:

http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/

Cheers!
Shyamal