Re: I want to StartX Manually

[Robert Cymbala <cymbaLa@lafn.org>]

Dan wrote:
 > To Whom It May Concern,
 > 
 > 
 > I want to start the XServer Manually and not on boot.  How do I do 
 > this.  I have looked in the lilo.conf, xfree86.cong, and the inetd.cong 
 > thinking it was in there, but couldnt find anything.  Where is it loacted? 
 > 
 > Any help will be honored.
 > 
 > Thanks,
 > Dan

Andrew wrote:
 >Get rid of /etc/rc*/*xdm .
 >
 >Alternatively, edit /etc/init.d/xdm to avoid starting xdm.
 >
 >ap

Here's how I edited /etc/init.d/xdm to avoid auto-launch of xdm, the X
display manager:
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>     echo -n "Start X display manager with: /etc/init.d/xdm sstart"
>     echo "."
>   ;;
> 
>   sstart)

In other words, those lines are inserted immediately after the
"start)" pattern within the case statement.  Does two things:
 - renames "start" to "sstart"
 - causes "start" to simply print a message about using "sstart"

And a third side-effect is: At end of boot-up, those echoed messages
appear immediately above "login:" prompt where they are easy to notice
(why, because xdm is the last step in boot-up).  To summarize, with
that edit, starting X can be done one of two ways:

 - startx
 - /etc/init.d/xdm sstart

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