On Tuesday 11 May 2004 9:54 am, John Hampton wrote: > Carla Schroder wrote: > <snip> > > > > Hmm. Yeah, you're right. I'm not crazy about using a display manager, because > > they get in my way, and don't provide a way to log out of X to the console. > > Maybe scripting something using xinit would be a cleaner way to begin. > > Have fun scripting a better startx. I'm afraid that I won't be too much > help there. �However, I'm not sure I entirely understand your complaint > with a login manager (which I assume you're referring to, ie, xdm or > gdm, etc.). �I realize that generally they start at boot and when you > log out of your X session then it takes you back to the login manager. > However, I've always bee able to get to a real console via > ctrl-alt-f[1-6]. �Once there, if you really don't want the login manager > to run, you can always stop the service. �In gentoo, all you do is > /etc/init.d/xdm stop.
'/etc/init.d/xdm stop' works on most systems. I do a lot of work in the console, and when I'm testing things that require a lot of reboots, waiting for the display manager to load gets old. For me it's more convenient to boot to a text console, then start X sessions when I want them. And I want to be able to choose whatever darn WM I want on a whim- after all, aren't choice and customizability the gawd-given rights of every Linux user? :) -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Carla Schroder this message brought to you by Libranet 2.8 and Kmail ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug
