Re: stop bringing up X window when Linux booting
> On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Daniel Yang wrote:
>
> > When my Linux boots, it starts X window automatically. I don't know how to stop it.
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Patrick Olson wrote:
> If you remove the package 'xdm' it will have to stop doing that. I'm not
> sure it that's the recommended way or not.
>
> Or you could hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 when X it starts. That leaves X running, but
> switches you to another virtual terminal that is not running X.
dpkg --purge xdm
works for my 2.1 system. Then you must kill -9 pid_for_xdm.
If you don't kill xdm with sigkill (or reboot), you still have an
xdm process running. xdm doesn't want to die. It won't do anything
until you try kill it with anything but a -9 signal, then it spawns
an xwindow. Which you then must kill with a sigkill.
startx and other methods of starting xwindows still work.
Hope this helps; all standard disclaimers apply.
--David
David Teague, dbt@cs.wcu.edu
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