Install and post-install questions

Sam Tygier samtygier at yahoo.co.uk
Wed May 18 13:17:10 UTC 2005


simi wrote:
> Hello again,

> 5. How can I set not to start in Gnome ? To boot directly into console 
> not X Server.

there are a couple of ways to do this.

gdm (gnome desktop manager?) is what starts x, and gives you a log in screen.

to stop this happening you can uninstall it, using synaptic, or apt-get remove gdm. this will cause ubuntu-desktop to be removed, but this is just a meta-package, which is only there to make sure the install/updater installs everything that you need.

the other way is to stop gdm running at start up, you could look at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=27740 , or do it manually, either by deleting /etc/rc2.d/S13gdm or by chmod -x /etc/init.d/gdm, so that it can't run.

sam






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