How do I suppress kde startup?

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Tue Aug 19 16:22:51 UTC 2008


Robert Ramey wrote:

> For my own purposes, I would like to be able to suppress the X Windows/KDE
> startup that Kubuntu uses and have it just startup with the simple
> username/password prompt.  But I haven't been able to find where to do
> this.

Do you mean you want a text mode login?  Just remove kdm if you want it
permanently done, or remove /etc/rc2.d/S*kdm to do it temporarily (it'll
get replaced any time kdm gets updated, or you can restore it with
update-rc.d)
-- 
derek





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