Re: startup forced to X login
MallarJ <MallarJ@aol.com> writes:
MallarJ> In a message dated 3/1/99 3:28:07 PM Central Standard Time,
MallarJ> lls@freedomain.org writes:
lls> For now, I would prefer to simply get a CLI login and do startx
lls> when I want it.
MallarJ>
MallarJ> This kind of annoyed me to I actually went back into
MallarJ> /etc/init.d/xdm and edited the script the way it used to work
MallarJ> in hamm
MallarJ> PS - Why was this feature taken out in slink? I couldn't
MallarJ> find any other way of NOT starting X at boottime other than
MallarJ> to add this script data back in.
Because in slink xdm (and other login managers) are in their own
packages. So if you don't want xdm, The Right Thing To Do (TM) is
either to remove the xdm package if you don't want to use xdm at all,
or if you only want it to serve remote displays, edit
/etc/X11/xdm/Xservers appropriately.
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