Brian Servis dixit: ~> ~> To stop xdm from starting in Debian 2.1 you have several options: ~> ~> 1) remove the xdm package ~> 2) put an exit 0 at the top of the /etc/init.d/xdm script ~> 3) remove the symlinks in rc?.d to xdm with: update-rc.d -f remove xdm ~> 4) comment out the ":0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X" line in ~> /etc/X11/xdm/Xservers. This will still allow remote XDMCP ~> connections since xdm is still running but not managing the local ~> display.
Sorry to take back on an old issue. Since Ctrl+Alt+Fn can switch from X to almost any V.C., and supposing you can then take on any task under the command line, I'm seeing no real point in removing xdm or preventing it from starting the x server on startup. But still, if I wanted to exit X... how do I do it? The exit menus in WM take me back to the X login prompt, they don't take me to the command prompt as they used to do in 2.0. TIA Horacio
