[Gllug] Delaying X startup at boot

Matthew King matthew.king at monnsta.net
Thu May 7 10:00:35 UTC 2009


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).

Matthew

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