Re: Eek! X won't go away!

[Gavin Hamill <gdh@acentral.co.uk>]

On Tue, 27 Feb 2001, Glenn Becker wrote:

> It sounds like you have xdm running. I don't much like it either - it is
> difficult to get to pure console with that thing in the way.

You're quite right I do indeed have xdm running, and had already noticed
the problem vanished when xdm did, but I assumed it had some vital
functionality for X that I wasn't aware of... 

But I'll be sure to blat it from startup completely :)

What purpose does it serve anyway?

Thanks!

Regards,

Gavin,