Re: Open letter to Debian community

[Peter S Galbraith <GalbraithP@dfo-mpo.gc.ca>]

Brian May wrote:

>  Victor Vislobokov <victor@tvmaxima.perm.ru> writes:
> 
> >     In version 1.3 (and in 2.0 AFAIR) there was possibility to turn
> > off xdm start, even if xdm is installed. It was done in
> > /etc/X11/Xsession.options by adding keyword no-start-xdm.
> > However, in late versions this option was been removed. But, sir, if
> > I installed xdm, it doesn't mean that I want to run it.
> 
> Why would you install xdm, but not want to use it?

Maybe not use it locally, but only from other workstations via
XDMCP?

If that's the case, edit the config file /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers

Peter