RE: A series of newbieite questions

["Anderson, Tim TL33E" <Tim.Anderson@ace-ina.com>]

	Matthew Dalton wrote:
	> > ObeseWhale wrote:
	> > 
	> > > 1.  Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux.  It
give me the
	> > > graphical login screen and everything.  This is annoying
because I don't
	> > > seem to be capable of exiting X...  Is there any way to stop
Debian from
	> > > running xdm on startup?
	> > You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm).
	> >
	> Uninstalling xdm is a drastic solution if you still want to
X-window, I usually
	> change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab so that I boot up in
text mode and
	> am still able to to use startx to get into X.

	>Well, I don't think it's that drastic.
	>AFAIK you don't need xdm installed in order to use startx.
	>At least it works for me.

	>-ff
	
	I agree, unless xdm (or gdm, or other clones)  has some other
purpose that I'm not aware of you would be better off removing it when you
don't want the graphical login.   Does anyone know if it does anything else?

	tim