Re: GUI login screen and non-root shutdown...

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Hoyt Bailey wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "csj" <csj@zapo.net>
> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 14:28
> Subject: Re: GUI login screen and non-root shutdown...
>
>
>
> > On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 10:56:47 -0600,
> > Kent West wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >
> > > If you have an X session going, and you switch to a VTx, you
> > > can then log in as a different user and start a second X
> > > session with a command like "startx -- :1". Go to a third VT
> > > and start a third session with a command like "startx --
> > > :2"). You can then switch between these X sessions with
> > > Ctrl-Alt-F[7|8|9]. NOTE: Test first when you don't have
> > > anything important running; some video setups can't handle this
> > > and might freeze the box.
> >
> > If you have gdm installed and running you can run
> > gdmflexiserver.  (Recommended only for home users.)
>
> You kind people are giving me workarounds how about where where the gui
> login screen lives.  i.e. what program is it?
> Regards;
> Hoyt
From an earlier posting:
"ps ax | grep [d]m" should give you a good clue [as to which session 
manager you're using (e.g. which "login screen" you're using") - we 
don't know what login screen you're using; only you know that]

Then you can either uninstall it ("apt-get --purge remove gdm" to 
remove/purge gdm) or disable it (various ways, such as putting "exit 0" 
as the first executable line in the script; the script for kdm should 
reside at "/etc/init.d/kdm", or renaming/moving the script or symlink to 
the script).


--
Kent