Ubuntu server and Gnome desktop

[Krapacs Ambrose]

On Nov 20, 2008, at 1:11 , Rashkae wrote:

> Remove GDM from startup.
>
> You have your preference how you want to do this.  Use the GUI  
> Services
>  manager and uncheck it.  Just delete the link from /etc/rc2.d, or
> properly rename the link so S is replaced with K.
>
> There's also a command line utility to manage the SysV startup, but I
> forget what it is.
>
> When you want to launch the GUI desktop from command line, the command
> is startx
>
>
>
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Is this something that is safe to do? When I deselected it from the  
GUI Services manager I was presented with a warning that continuing  
could result in data loss. Then after I rebooted when I attempted to  
load the GDM using "startx", immediately after the desktop loaded  
there was an error about the program "user switcher" crashing.