How to stop X from starting at logon?

Erik Heil eheil at patmedia.net
Sat Dec 6 09:53:18 EST 2003


What you need to do is change the system's default runlevel for this to
occur.  Various runlevels dictate whether the machine will boot into a
graphics or text mode UI.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Al Puzzuoli" <alpuzz at comcast.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Friday, December 05, 2003 4:36 PM
Subject: How to stop X from starting at logon?


> Hello,
>
> I am running Fedora and using a combination of Speakup, BRLTTY and
> Gnopernicus.  By default when I log in, the gnome desktop comes up.  I
would
> like to change the setup so that I log into a text mode shell and manually
> run the startx command when I want the gui.
>
> Thanks for any help as to how to do this.
>
> --Al
>
>
>
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