Re: About gdm3

[Karl Schmidt <karl@xtronics.com>]

On 11/17/2011 04:41 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> That is just what I want (the method I used not to start gdm does not
> work with gdm3, of course). Could you provide the details/
> Thanks a lot
> francesco

gdm3 is just another daemon

See:
http://www.bergek.com/2009/02/22/control-debian-daemons/

the advantage of sysv-rc-conf is it runs from the command line.

install the sysv-rc-conf - read the man page - run the command.





> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Karl Schmidt<karl@xtronics.com>  wrote:
> > On 11/16/2011 02:44 PM, Francesco Pietra wrote:
> > > Hello
> > > With my i386 wheezy desktop I had the surprise of gdm3 display
> > > manager, whereby now the X server is started automatically, without
> > >
> > > startx
> > >
> > > gnome-session.
> > >
> > >
> > >   How should I manage not to have the same situation with one of my
> > > cpu-gpu servers? It  is usually used for chemical computations from
> > > the console, while there is also a dormant X server to be used
> > > occasionally with a gpu-enabled graphic program. The X server has not
> > > to be started in order that the cpu-gpu calculation can be run.
> >
> > You can tell Debian not to start gdm3 ( or kdm etc..)  via sysv. I use the
> > sysv-rc-conf package to control what starts.
> >
> >
> >
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