On Wed, Apr 11, 2001 at 07:40:56PM +0000, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > So who's the rocket scientist who decided that if XWindows gets > installed, then XDM should be enabled?
if you install xdm it is assumed that you wish to run it. if not then apt-get remove xdm. if you still feel the need to flame someone over this you could flame the X maintainer, but i think you would be better off slamming your hand in a car door. (actually im certain you would be better off slamming your hand a car door...) > Imagine my suprise when I started my debian installation up again for > the first time in a few days and found the XDM login prompt. Well, > that's OK, just press ctrl-command-delete and it kills the x server, > then I can login and - whoa! - the X server restarts and I have the XDM > login prompt. try control command F1, that takes you back to the console. > Please, please, please whoever is responsible for maintaining these > packages don't install a startup script that's going to render a user's > system unusable until the user has had the opportunity to verify that it > works on their own, personal, particular system. the system is not unusable, if you don't want xdm then don't install it. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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