On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 08:20:21PM -0700, bob parker wrote: > I'm very new to Debian (Potato r3) and very impressed > with the stability. My install defaulted to booting > into xdm which I do not want as I prefer using the > command line for a lot of work. > > I got around this by mv'ing /etc/init.d/xdm to > ...xdm.bak. Very much a kludge I think.
A better way would be to rename /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm to s99xdm or something. There is a utility to do this, but I don't remember what it is called. This is assuming you boot into runlevel 2. This way you can just switch to runlevel 3 (`init 3`) to get xdm if you want it. > What is the better way? Also how may I get back to the > command line when using xdm? All the way back, not > just using virtual terminals under X. You just type ctrl-alt-fN where N is 1-6. Although I'm not sure what you mean by virtual terminals under X (xterms, perhaps?). This gives you virtual terminals, but they are not under X. -- David Roundy http://civet.berkeley.edu/droundy/
