On 7/22/06, Francesco Pietra <frapietra@alice.it> wrote:
I am looking instead at etc/rc#.d how to stop services. I never looked at that before but it seems that gnome, can be stopped from rc4.d. It may be useful to get knowledge of rc#.d instead of going by trial and error as I did before, succeding in having X system at command.
That doesn't make sense. GNOME consists of a set of libraries and applications that use those libraries. You don't "start up Gnome" or "stop Gnome"; you instead run (or don't run) one or another of those applications. There are a few of those apps that make attempts to "take over" a system and run other Gnome apps; you need only avoid them. gdm is likely one such; gnome-session is another; Nautilus is in a pretty special class of its own... Get rid of those three and you're likely pretty safe from being "hurt" by Gnome... -- http://www3.sympatico.ca/cbbrowne/linux.html Oddly enough, this is completely standard behaviour for shells. This is a roundabout way of saying `don't use combined chains of `&&'s and `||'s unless you think Gödel's theorem is for sissies'.