stop machine before fvwm2
This seems like a dumb question, and I'm sure this is probably really easy, but I'm still learning here... I need to boot my machine 1 time without loading the window manager (fvwm2), is there any way to do this? A key to press during the bootup maybe (like F8 in windows)? Any help is much appreciated! Ben Frame
Re: stop machine before fvwm2
Ben Frame wrote: I need to boot my machine 1 time without loading the window manager (fvwm2), is there any way to do this? A key to press during the bootup maybe (like F8 in windows)? Presumably you mean `without starting X'? (since fvwm2 is just another X program). a) interrupt the LILO boot by pressing the Control key and type `linux single' in response to the boot prompt; that will put you in single-user mode and will not, therefore, start X. or b) edit g/etc/X11/config and change start-xdm to no-start-xdm [not relevant to the most recent versions of X where xdm is a separate package and /etc/X11/config is no longer used.] or c) allow xdm to start and use ctrl-R to terminate it at the login screen If you are able to log in through xdm, you can also get to a console screen by pressing ctrl-alt-F1 [and -F2, -F3 up to -F6] after your X session is up and running. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the LORD, which made heaven and earth. Psalms 121:1,2
Re: stop machine before fvwm2
Ben Frame wrote: I need to boot my machine 1 time without loading the window manager (fvwm2), is there any way to do this? A key to press during the bootup maybe (like F8 in windows)? Presumably you mean `without starting X'? (since fvwm2 is just another X program). [ .. how to do that .. ] Wouldn't it be nice to have a run-level that doesn't start X by default in debian? It is one of the first things I do after installing debian on a machine. Eric Meijer -- E.L. Meijer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) | tel. office +31 40 2472189 Eindhoven Univ. of Technology | tel. lab. +31 40 2475032 Lab. for Catalysis and Inorg. Chem. (TAK) | tel. fax+31 40 2455054
Re: stop machine before fvwm2
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, E.L. Meijer (Eric) wrote: [ .. how to do that .. ] Wouldn't it be nice to have a run-level that doesn't start X by default in debian? It is one of the first things I do after installing debian on a machine. Eric and Paul At the very least, the X (or xdm) package should let you get X working before activating xdm. I had a really bad turn with my new machine that has an SiS 6326, and Slink (frozen). X didn't work, but xdm did. My X now works, but not without using single user to kill xdm, and some playing with XF86Config and lots of RTFM, several of them, Readmes and HOWTOs too. flame Thanks for this. May it be plastered on the walls of the X developers. /flame David David Teague [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux Because software stability should be expected.
