[Gllug] Delaying X startup at boot

[Matthew King]

Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> writes:

> On Thursday 07 May 2009, Matthew King wrote:
>> Dylan <dylan at dylan.me.uk> writes:
>> > At the moment, I'm going with the former workaround, but how do I
>> > convince the machine to wait until later in the boot process to start the
>> > X server/kdm?
>>
>> Just disable xdm (or as in my case, load it for xdmcp but don't run any
>> servers) and start X manually with startx (or, rather, startx&exit
>> otherwise your terminal will remain open).
>
> That's still a *manual* process, and I'm quite capable of issuing a logout on 

So is sitting down at and using the computer.

Matthew

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