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Re: graphical login



bart@gigabee.com (Bart Szyszka) wrote:
>> The graphical login in run by xdm.  Either remove /etc/rc2.d/xdm,
>> or edit the xdm conf to turn off xdm for the local host 
>> (comment out the final line in /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers)
>
>A couple people have suggested that, but isn't it just easier to
>do a dpkg --purge xdm?

Not always. Sometimes you may want to leave it installed and use it
some time in the future, or perhaps leave it installed so that it
doesn't get pulled in again by dependencies later. Purging it is of
course an option ...

-- 
Colin Watson                                           [cjw44@cam.ac.uk]


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