[wplug] Newbie question on graphical login

[John Harrold]

Sometime in November Bill assaulted the keyboard and produced:

| I'm confused....i thought the question was how to prevent the box from
| booting into a graphical display?  The solutions I've seen have
| addressed how to prevent X from running period.  On Red Hat, the
| solution would actually be to run Xconfigurator and set it not to boot
| into graphical mode.

| > > id:5:initdefault: (default runlevel is 5)
| > > 
| > > to
| > > 
| > > id:3:initdefault: (runlevel 3 - i.e. no login manager)

this solution doesn't prevent x from running, it just prevents the
graphical login in redhat and similar distros. after logging into the
console you could still type xinit to start xwindows.

i would imagine running Xconfigurator et al. would just edit this file for
you. 

| I dont know much about Debian but I read that in 1999, Debian announced
| its plans to release a Debian port of Xconfigurator and package it with
| its distro.  If they followed thru on that, you should be able to run
| that and solve your problem without having to disable X in any
| particular level.

removing the symlinks in debian prevents the xlogin from running. the
binary (xdm) is still there and you can always start it yourself by typing
`xdm' at the prompt. your ability to run x and xdm still exsists.

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