Re: stop xwindows from loading at boot

[Pollywog <linux-debian@shadypond.com>]

On Tuesday 22 March 2005 02:25 am, Pollywog wrote:

> kdm and gdm also have an option to login to a console, don't they?
> If one wants to completely disable the session manager, one could
> edit /etc/init.d/[kxg]dm   and put  'exit 0'  (without the quotes) on the
> line that follows the #!/bin/sh  line.  That way one would not have to
> remove the package.
>
> When I want to login to a shell prompt, I just hold down ctrl-alt and touch
> F1 or F2, etc to get a console.

I just checked and kdm indeed has a "menu" pulldown menu that offers a console 
login.  Also, one can just enter alt-n when kdm comes up and they will be 
taken to a console.  I recall that gdm has something similar.  I have not 
used xdm in a long time so I don't recall what it looks like.

8)

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