I want no GDM at startup

bsfmig bigslowfat at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 14:02:39 UTC 2011


Sorry for misunderstanding your question.
Maybe you need to first rename the file S[nn]gdm to K[nn]gdm then
update-rc.d again.

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 21:56, bsfmig <bigslowfat at gmail.com> wrote:

> No way. XFCE is based on GTK and uses gdm as its default DM. It doesn't
> have a self-developed DM.
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 21:47, Sascha Effert <fermat at uni-paderborn.de>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I am getting crazy... I have a ubuntu server 10.10 and installed
>> xubuntu-desktop on top of it. Now I would like to get rid of gdm, so it
>> shall not be started whe I boot the machine. Following what I found at
>> google I called:
>>
>> root at ubuntu-base:~# sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove
>>  Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/gdm ...
>> root at ubuntu-base:~#
>>
>> But on next boot gdm is started again. Searching around I was not able to
>> find a way to deactivate it. Could please anybody tell me how to deactivate
>> it? Preferred using the console...
>>
>> bests
>>
>> Sascha Effert
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