[Gllug] Delaying X startup at boot

[Dan Kolb]

On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 11:12:45AM +0100, Dylan wrote:
> 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 
> the terminal after switching runlevel - my issue is to make X start later 
> WITHOUT having to intercede and without fscking up something I'll have 
> trouble fixing.

What about finding the appropriate init script that starts xdm, and sticking a
'sleep 10' in there?

Dan
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