Dan wrote: > To Whom It May Concern, > > > I want to start the XServer Manually and not on boot. How do I do > this. I have looked in the lilo.conf, xfree86.cong, and the inetd.cong > thinking it was in there, but couldnt find anything. Where is it loacted? > > Any help will be honored. > > Thanks, > Dan
Andrew wrote: >Get rid of /etc/rc*/*xdm . > >Alternatively, edit /etc/init.d/xdm to avoid starting xdm. > >ap Here's how I edited /etc/init.d/xdm to avoid auto-launch of xdm, the X display manager: 24a25,29 > echo -n "Start X display manager with: /etc/init.d/xdm sstart" > echo "." > ;; > > sstart) In other words, those lines are inserted immediately after the "start)" pattern within the case statement. Does two things: - renames "start" to "sstart" - causes "start" to simply print a message about using "sstart" And a third side-effect is: At end of boot-up, those echoed messages appear immediately above "login:" prompt where they are easy to notice (why, because xdm is the last step in boot-up). To summarize, with that edit, starting X can be done one of two ways: - startx - /etc/init.d/xdm sstart * * *
