Thanks to all for your replies. update-rc.d -f gdm remove did the trick. Thanks, Roland.
-----Original Message----- From: s. keeling [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 March 2004 18:47 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Stopping GNOME Launching on Reboot Incoming from Richard Hoskins: > "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Incoming from Roland Dunn: > >> > >> Having typed: "update-alternatives --config x-session-manager" and > >> choosen GNOME, GNOME now starts up on reboot. I'd like it not to so that > >> I can type "startx" when I want it to go into GNOME. How can I force it > >> not to launch GNOME on reboot? > > > > That's gdm, and you can disable it by [as root]: > > > > 1. /etc/init.d/gdm stop > > > > 2. edit /etc/init.d/gdm. Stick an "exit 0" near the top of it. > > > > Note you should do it in that order. The second step disables the > > first. And from now on, X desktop changes go in ~/.xsession > > Wouldn't it be better to change the symlink in /etc/rc2.d? (Assuming > the OP is booting into runlevel 2.) As you might imagine, d-u has gone over this a few times in the past. I believe the upshot is, "Six of one; half a dozen of the other", or YMMV. _I_ like to be able to change one high-level entity, which controls all the lower level bits it affects. That's /etc/init.d/blah That "2." above ought to be: - insert "echo blah startup disabled in /etc/init.d/blah" - insert "exit 0" in /etc/init.d/blah I am not an inittab power user. I use multi-user and single-user exclusively. I don't need a non-X multi-user, and I doubt many others do either. I think that's reflected in how Linux & Debian has been shipping for years. If you do, then you ordinarily know what to do. > I think this is better for several reasons. It preserves init.d/gdm > in case he wants to start|stop|restart gdm from the command line, it > allows for running gdm in a different runlevel, and it doesn't depend > on init.d/gdm running at all when booting in to runlevel 2. In > addition, it is consistent with the way System V init is commonly > used, and documented. > > 'mv /etc/rc2.d/Snngdm /etc/rc2.d/Knngdm', as root. I don't like that for myself for the simple reason that I have a lot of /etc/rcN.d/XXXX, and I don't want to have to try to keep track of them all. I much prefer being able to (eg.): head -2 /etc/init.d/* | grep "exit 0" or something (better: use that echo above and watch boot messages). You're probably right AND my way works. :-) -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling - - -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
