Re: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot

["s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca>]

Incoming from Roland Dunn:
> 
> Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and
> choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that
> I can type "startx" when I want it to go into GNOME. How can I force it
> not to launch GNOME on reboot?

That's gdm, and you can disable it by [as root]:

  1. /etc/init.d/gdm stop

  2. edit /etc/init.d/gdm.  Stick an "exit 0" near the top of it.

Note you should do it in that order.  The second step disables the
first.  And from now on, X desktop changes go in ~/.xsession


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