Re: Need to prevent X from restarting

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

Incoming from Aldous Huxley:
> 
> Yes, I already knew that trick.  It's just that sometimes I need to
> back out of X completely to free up system resources to allow me to
> play mp3s using console-based players like "splay".

Do you have any good reason for running [xkg]dm at all?  You don't
need it to run X.  Disable it, then login to X with "nohup startx &
exit".

Then when you next exit X, you'll be dropped to a command line login
prompt.


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