[Gllug] Delaying X startup at boot

[Dylan]

On Thursday 07 May 2009, Matthew King wrote:
> 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.

That doesn't require non-savvy users to have the root password in order to 
boot the thing in my absence though, does it?

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