Re: Can I stop xdm/wdm from always starting up?
Pedro Guerreiro wrote:
>Let's me explain the problem: Somewhere along these last big changes in X,
>something was lost (I think). In the old days, there was an option in
>/etc/X11/config that gives you the chance to start (or not) xdm/wdm: If you
>has a line like 'start-xdm' on that file, the xdm was started every time you
>boot the machine, but if you changed that line to something like
>'no-start-xdm', then xdm didn't start, and you end up with the console login
>.
>As my linux box is mine, all mine and nothing but mine :-)), sometimes
>(especially when trying something more dangerous in X) I wanted to start the
>plain console, and then try X using startx.
>
>Well, now this is gone :-(, or not? Are the any _right_ way to do this now?
>
>I've hacked my system to do this, through a change in /etc/init.d/[xw]dm,
>but if there is a _right_ way to allow me to do this, I didn't have to mess
>around with these scripts.
Since xdm is now a separate package, you should simply remove it. If you
want to keep xdm, yet not use it, hacking the init file seems the best way
to do it.
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