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Jeff Houck

2004-11-11, 7:45 am

After installing X-windows and ctwm (Woody 3.0v3), I now get a graphical
login prompt instead of the text prompt, which I prefer (I would rather
start an X-windows session with startx, not automatically at login). Any
pointers on reconfiguring so I can get the text prompt back as my
default? I'm switching from SuSE to Debian amd not familiar with
Debian's configuration yet. Thx.

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Andreas Janssen

2004-11-11, 5:45 pm

Hello

Jeff Houck (<jhouck@northrim.net> ) wrote:

> After installing X-windows and ctwm (Woody 3.0v3), I now get a
> graphical login prompt instead of the text prompt, which I prefer (I
> would rather start an X-windows session with startx, not automatically
> at login). Any pointers on reconfiguring so I can get the text prompt
> back as my default? I'm switching from SuSE to Debian amd not familiar
> with Debian's configuration yet. Thx.


Remove the start link that causes xdm to be loaded.

rm /etc/rc2.d/S99xdm

should work. If your login manager is kdm or gdm, remove S99kdm/S99gdm.
You can shut down the program immediately by running
/etc/init.d/xdm stop.

best regards
Andreas Janssen

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Vincent Vaporub

2004-11-11, 5:45 pm

Writing on [ alt.os.linux.debian ] in reply to Jeff Houck:
> After installing X-windows and ctwm (Woody 3.0v3), I now get a graphical
> login prompt instead of the text prompt, which I prefer (I would rather
> start an X-windows session with startx, not automatically at login). Any
> pointers on reconfiguring so I can get the text prompt back as my
> default? I'm switching from SuSE to Debian amd not familiar with
> Debian's configuration yet. Thx.
>


update-rc.d -f gdm remove
^^^
or xdm, kdm
alternative:

# apt-get install rcconf

It is a TUI frontend to the update-rc.d command
Jeff Houck

2004-11-11, 5:45 pm

Vincent Vaporub wrote:
> Writing on [ alt.os.linux.debian ] in reply to Jeff Houck:
>
>
>
> update-rc.d -f gdm remove
> ^^^
> or xdm, kdm
> alternative:
>
> # apt-get install rcconf
>
> It is a TUI frontend to the update-rc.d command


Thanks for the info guys!

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