on Tue, Mar 27, 2001 at 06:47:30AM -0500, Holp, John Mr. (holpj@nwc.navy.mil) wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Karsten M. Self [mailto:kmself@ix.netcom.com] > > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:25 PM > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > Subject: Re: I want to StartX Manually > > > > on Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 07:15:51PM -0700, Dan Reinhardt (dan502@cia-g.com) > > 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? > > > > Read: > > > > http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html > > > > Cheers. > > > > Karsten, > > Look in /etc/inittab for the line that reads; > > id:5:initdefault > > Change the 5 to a 2 -- then reboot your system. It will come up > non windows. Then manually type startx and it should come up in windows. > > John First, that's X or the X window system. Legacy MS Windows is something else. Look yourself. This is Debian, not Red Hat. - Initdefault _is_ 2. - [xwgk]dm starts at runlevels 2, 3, 4, and 5. See /etc/inittab, /etc/rc?.d/*dm. And /etc/init.d/README, and references therein. Reply to list, not me. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? There is no K5 cabal http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ http://www.kuro5hin.org
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