On Sun, 2003-03-23 at 14:54, Leo Spalteholz wrote: > Sorry this won't help you but I've always wondered why debian does > this. You install xdm and the defualt is to boot straight into a > graphical login. Why?? At the very least it should ask you when > installing if you want to start up into X. > A friend of mine recently installed debian and whenever he rebooted it > started x and then hung his machine. He doesn't have enough > experience to know how to circumvent this and therefore had to do a > complete reinstall. > I would think that especially debian would adopt a policy of having > automatic boot to X disabled by default. Every other distro will at > least ask you.
Oh, that's it. Thank you - removing wbm from the boot process took care of that one. I was expecting that by switching to Debian, I would be getting away from 'helpful' software. After spending the afternoon in the Debian /etc directory, I'm inclined to agree with Evi Nemeth et al who claim Debian's init process leaves a little something to be desired, readability-wise. It's such a mess that I'd volunteer to fix it if I thought I knew enough. An explicit kill of the wmaker process seems to get me out of X. So far. I'll believe it when it works reliably for 3 weeks. And I sure would like to know what causes this LCD screen slowly to turn white. Window Maker with the big debian jpg sure is cool, though :-) -- Glenn English [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
