On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:46:57 -0800
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can tell the difference in browsing speed on my machines if my
ISP's network gets congested, with Mozilla or Firefox. If browsing
slows down to anywhere near dialup speeds I can ping the local
gateway for a
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:04:14AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
If all you need is browsing, the fastest start you can get is xinit
with your browser instead of an xterm (I don't remember what config file
to change, maybe .xinitrc?). But you won't be able to run anything else.
A more flexible
On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 11:04:14AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:46:57 -0800
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The reason I wouldn't run a gui by default is that these old machines
don't have a lot of memory in them, and a gui eats a lot of resources
so
Paul E Condon wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote:
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Glenn Becker wrote:
Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^)
I'd say - no.
Okay! :^)
to remove:
#update-rc.d -f gdm remove
to
Hello Freddy.
Freddy Freeloader, 07.02.2007 17:18:
Paul E Condon wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote:
I use 'apt-get remove gdm'. When it is not installed, it surely will
not run at startup ;-). If you do use this approach, you need to make
sure that you
Mathias Brodala wrote:
Hello Freddy.
Freddy Freeloader, 07.02.2007 17:18:
Paul E Condon wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote:
I use 'apt-get remove gdm'. When it is not installed, it surely will
not run at startup ;-). If you do use this approach,
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LOL. I suppose that's a solution. However, I occasionally do some
browsing when Googling answers to problems on those machines so being
able to fire up the gui easily is sort of a must.
And what's wrong with
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LOL. I suppose that's a solution. However, I occasionally do some
browsing when Googling answers to problems on those machines so being
able to fire up the gui easily is sort of a must.
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:02:57 -0800
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LOL. I suppose that's a solution. However, I occasionally do
some browsing when Googling answers to
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:42:27PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:02:57 -0800
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LOL. I suppose that's a solution.
On 2/6/07, myusernet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui.
What am I supposed to do?
Hi,
just, go to the
/etc/inittab and change this line
id:2:initdefault:
for this
id:3:initdefault:
then
rename your file SXXgdm or SXXkdm or
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:22:32PM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
this file should be found in the /etc/rc3.d/
and then restart your PC, if you later want your xfce back just edit the
/etc/inittab again
and change your line
id:3:initdefault:
to
id:2:initdefault:
with this line you
On 2/7/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 08:22:32PM -0400, Guillermo Garron wrote:
this file should be found in the /etc/rc3.d/
and then restart your PC, if you later want your xfce back just edit the
/etc/inittab again
and change your line
cga2000 wrote:
On Wed, Feb 07, 2007 at 12:42:27PM EST, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 09:02:57 -0800
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:18:26 -0800
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
LOL. I
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of gui.
What am I supposed to do?
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On 02/06/07 08:44, myusernet wrote:
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console
instead of gui. What am I supposed to do?
Congratulations on your brave adventure! Many of us have taken this
road to True Geekdom and have never
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of
gui. What am I supposed to do?
IIRC you need to go into /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/ and mv 'S99gdm' to 'K99gdm'
wherever it appears. Same if you see 'S99kdm' anywhere. This will keep the
GUI login splash from starting up.
GB
Ron Johnson wrote:
What you do is purge the packages gdm, xdm kdm. You'll only have
one of them installed, but I list them all just to be comprehensive.
Not quite all; wdm is also a possibility; perhaps others.
--
Kent West
http://kentwest.blogspot.com http://kentwest.blogspot.com/
--
Glenn Becker wrote:
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead
of gui. What am I supposed to do?
IIRC you need to go into /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/ and mv 'S99gdm' to 'K99gdm'
wherever it appears. Same if you see 'S99kdm' anywhere. This will keep
the GUI login splash from
Whereas this will work (assuming you're using gdm or kdm instead of xdm
or wdm), you'll have to do this for each runlevel.
I find it easier to temporarily disable [gkxw]dm by editing
/etc/init.d/[gkxw]dm and putting the single line exit 0 as the first
non-comment line in the script (or, for
On 2/6/07, Glenn Becker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whereas this will work (assuming you're using gdm or kdm instead of xdm
or wdm), you'll have to do this for each runlevel.
I find it easier to temporarily disable [gkxw]dm by editing
/etc/init.d/[gkxw]dm and putting the single line exit 0 as
Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^)
I'd say - no.
Okay! :^)
to remove:
#update-rc.d -f gdm remove
to restore:
#update-rc.d gdm defaults
I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess.
G
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:44:33PM +0800, myusernet wrote:
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead
of gui. What am I supposed to do?
While all the others have provided you with various
solutions... here's the easy one... ;-P
There is a command -- update-rc.d --
On 2/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:44:33PM +0800, myusernet wrote:
In your case, if you're using gdm:
update-rc.d -f gdm remove
this will remove all the symlinks to gdm in all the runlevels so that
gdm will not start at boot-up. If you want to
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:21:36PM +0200, Atis wrote:
On 2/6/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:44:33PM +0800, myusernet wrote:
In your case, if you're using gdm:
update-rc.d -f gdm remove
this will remove all the symlinks to gdm in all the
Glenn Becker wrote:
Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^)
I'd say - no.
Okay! :^)
to remove:
#update-rc.d -f gdm remove
to restore:
#update-rc.d gdm defaults
I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess.
G
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Glenn Becker -
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:03:43PM +0200, Atis wrote:
[...]
to remove:
#update-rc.d -f gdm remove
[...]
Although this way is quite fast, one would have to do it again
everytime an upgrade of [gkwx]dm happens, since there will be no
symlinks in /etc/rc*.d. But if there were KNN[gkwx]dm links
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:08:37PM +, Glenn Becker wrote:
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of
gui. What am I supposed to do?
IIRC you need to go into /etc/rc.d/rc*.d/ and mv 'S99gdm' to 'K99gdm'
wherever it appears. Same if you see 'S99kdm'
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 10:55:46PM +0100, Marcus Blumhagen wrote:
Although this way is quite fast, one would have to do it again
everytime an upgrade of [gkwx]dm happens, since there will be no
symlinks in /etc/rc*.d. But if there were KNN[gkwx]dm links in
the appropriate /etc/rc*.d
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On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 06:01:04PM -0500, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 03:08:37PM +, Glenn Becker wrote:
I am running xfce4 but I want to boot the system to console instead of
gui. What am I supposed to do?
IIRC
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Glenn Becker wrote:
Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^)
I'd say - no.
Okay! :^)
to remove:
#update-rc.d -f gdm remove
to restore:
#update-rc.d gdm defaults
I learned something, today, great! TMTOWTDI, I guess.
G
On Tue, Feb 06, 2007 at 04:30:50PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote:
Freddy Freeloader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:Glenn Becker wrote:
Yes, I'd say much more elegant! :^)
I'd say - no.
Okay! :^)
to remove:
#update-rc.d -f gdm remove
to restore:
#update-rc.d gdm defaults
I
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