How to stop X from starting at logon?

[Joseph C. Lininger]

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The gentleman said he was running Fedora, not Debian. Fedora does in
fact use runlevels to control whether X starts or not.
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Joseph C. Lininger
jbahm at pcdesk.net
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From: "Kenny Hitt" <kenny at hittsjunk.net>
To: "Erik Heil" <eheil at patmedia.net>; "Speakup is a screen review
system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 8:20 AM
Subject: Re: How to stop X from starting at logon?


> Hi.  That answer isn't correct for Debian.  Unlike some other
> distros, Debian doesn't make different run levels for graphic or
> text logins. You might not want to answer questions about a distro
> if you haven't used it.
> 
>          Kenny
> 
> On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 09:53:18AM -0500, Erik Heil wrote:
> > 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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