How to stop X from starting at logon?

Kenny Hitt kenny at hittsjunk.net
Sun Dec 7 19:14:36 EST 2003


Oops, should read before I reply.

          Kenny

On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 04:45:09PM -0700, Joseph C. Lininger wrote:
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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.
> - ---
> Joseph C. Lininger
> jbahm at pcdesk.net
> - ----- Original Message ----- 
> 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?
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> > 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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