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Re: Unwanted Graphical Login and other woes...



On Wed, 9 Jun 1999, Andrew J Fortune wrote:

> I don't know what I have done, but Linux (using slink) is now booting up to
> a graphical login. This is not what I want at the moment, and I was
> wondering if anyone knew what the problem might be ? .... this is not
> normally a problem, but I am trying to resolve other problems associated
> with startx and file resolution....and this is not allowing me to test some
> things.

You probably have xdm installed.  You can either remove the
package with dpkg or disable the automatic startup by
removing the symbolic links in /etc/rc[0-6].d/S??xdm.

To do this with the login screen, first switch to another
virtual console using the Alt-F? where ? in 1, 2, 3, ...

-- 
Jean Pierre



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