Re: X

["Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com>]

on Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 03:19:45PM -0600, Dave Sherohman (esper@sherohman.org) wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2003 at 06:37:02AM +0000, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> > on Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 05:43:42PM -0700, Glenn English (ghe@slsware.com) wrote:
> > > On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:54, Leo Spalteholz wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Sorry this won't help you but I've always wondered why debian does
> > > > this.  You install xdm and the defualt is to boot straight into a
> > > > graphical login.  Why??  At the very least it should ask you when
> > > > installing if you want to start up into  X.  
> > 
> > Debian assumes you wouldn't have installed X if you didn't want it
> > starting automatically.  And that you'd know how to disable it from
> > doing so via update-rc.d.
> 
> Minor correction, there, Karsten:  Change "X" to xdm. (Used here in a
> generic sense, meant to also include [gkw]dm.)

Good catch.  Yes, this is true.

> If you don't install X or xdm, X isn't there, so it doesn't start.
> 
> If you install X and don't install xdm, you can start X from the
> command line, but it does not start automatically.
> 
> If you install both X and xdm, then xdm starts X automatically
> because that's what xdm does.  If you don't want to use it, don't
> install it.

Though (already mentioned) it's possible to modify the SysV init
configuration via update-rc.d.  Or manually, if you don't mind confusing
the system.

> If you install xdm and don't install X, then you're probably crazy,
> but you are also likely to know what needs to be done to make this
> setup behave in a sensible fashion, since you had to know enough to
> override some dependencies and force dpkg/apt to ignore xdm's
> dependencies.

;-)

Peace.

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