Re: How to switch to text mode
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote:
> Freddy Freeloader <fredddy@cableone.net> wrote: Glenn Becker wrote:
> >
> >>> Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^)
> >>
> >> I'd say - no.
> >
> > Okay! :^)
> >
> >> to remove:
> >> #update-rc.d -f gdm remove
> >>
> >> to restore:
> >> #update-rc.d gdm defaults
> >
> > I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess.
> >
> > G
> >
> > +-----------------------------------------------------+
> > Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org
> > SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
> > +-----------------------------------------------------+
> >
> I guess I do things a different way than everyone else. All I do on the
> machines I have that have a gui installed, but I'd prefer them to not
> boot to the gui, is just rename /etc/init.d/gdm to /etc/init.d/gdm.old.
> Then the all the links at the different run levels don't see the gdm
> startup script. Then if I was to fire up the gui all I do is type, as
> root, gdm and hit enter.
>
> Is it an elegant solution? No. Is it easy to change if I ever decide I
> want to boot into the gui? Yes. All I do is rename /etc/init.d/gdm.old
> to gdm and I'm good to go.
> You can also put 'exit 0' at the top of the script so that it doesn't execute.
I use 'apt-get remove gdm'. When it is not installed, it surely will
not run at startup ;-). If you do use this approach, you need to make
sure that you also remove kdm, xdm, and any other ?dm.
--
Paul E Condon
pecondon@mesanetworks.net
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