id:3:initdefault: in /etc/inittab doesn't do it?????, (Joe(theWordy)Philbrook)

[Peter Lieverdink]

Sasha Tsykin wrote:
> All the ubuntu runlevels are configured so they proceed smoothly to
> runlevel 5. To alter this behaviour first alter inittab to have it boot
> to the runlevel you wish, and thentype in the terminal:

Not quite, 2-5 just all do the same thing, so changing the default
runlevel has *no* effect whatsoever.

> mkdir /home/[username]/backup
> sudo mv /etc/rc[runlevel].d/*dm /home/[username]/backup
> 
> This will prevent it from loading X. To have it load X just type startx
> in the terminal. To have it load X automatically on boot just move those
> files back to their original location.

Or you could check the /etc/rc?.d/*dm files and see none of them run
when they're not the default, as set in /etc/X11/default-display-manager.

So you could simply edit *that* file and set its contents to "fubar".

See also 'rcconf' or 'System -> Administration -> Services'

- P.