[Nottingham] how to proceed

David Bean david at dbean.uklinux.net
Mon Sep 4 12:37:21 BST 2006


On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 20:32 +0100, James Gibbon wrote:
> I've been using Xubuntu for a few days, and find it a bit iffy - due to
> underlying Debian issues though, really. Never particularly liked Debian,
> I'm afraid - the most recent source of irritation is the fact that the
> runlevels from 2-5 are duplicates, meaning that you can't simply change
> the default to avoid running X - which is a bit crap.
> 
> James

"can't simply change the default?"

In Debian Sarge with GDM starting the display:
rm /etc/rc3.d/S99gdm
then change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab

Admittedly one more step than some Distro's, but hardly in depth.
Alternatively you could uninstall gdm/kdm/xdm.


David Bean




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