*- On 16 Mar, Laurent PICOULEAU wrote about "Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows"
>
> There was a point that I liked before : the possibility to not start xdm even
> if it was installed. Why ? Well sometimes I'm trying to advocates linux to
> friends and showing them that you can have a graphical loggin just by
> replacing
> no-start-xdm by start-xdm was more convincing than "just wait a few minutes
> that I install xdm...". Not a big point but keeping this one could be nice.
Since you had to edit a file in that case you can still achive the same
effect by editing different files, depending on what you want.
1) Edit the /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers file and commenting out the local
server line. Xdm will be running but no local Xserver will
be running, it will just be listening for XDMCP connections.
2) Edit /etc/init.d/xdm and insert an 'exit 0' at the top of the file.
Xdm will not even start or listen with this option.
> I have an other problem with the upgrade : there are still packages dependant
> on xbase on my system and I'm relunctant to spend about six hours to get these
> by phone. I'm waiting for the release of the slink CD in France. Until this
> time I'll have a wandering empty xbase just to satisfy dependancies of not
> up to date packages : not a big deal.
>
That is one reason that package is even there. Otherwise the package
manager would go nuts.
--
Brian
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