[Gllug] Delaying X startup at boot

[Dylan]

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.

Dx

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