On Mon, Sep 25, 2000 at 09:46:42AM +0200, Helgi Örn wrote: > On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, Matthew Dalton wrote: > > ObeseWhale wrote: > > > > > 1. Debian keeps starting X as soon as I boot into linux. It give me the > > > graphical login screen and everything. This is annoying because I don't > > > seem to be capable of exiting X... Is there any way to stop Debian from > > > running xdm on startup? > > You can uninstall xdm (apt-get remove xdm). > > > Uninstalling xdm is a drastic solution if you still want to X-window, I > usually > change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab so that I boot up in text mode and > am still able to to use startx to get into X.
Well, I don't think it's that drastic.
AFAIK you don't need xdm installed in order to use startx.
At least it works for me.
-ff
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