I want no GDM at startup

[Shaun Jones]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:07 AM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Sascha Effert <fermat at uni-paderborn.de>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
>
> GDM's an upstart job so "update-rc.d..." doesn't affect it.
>
> Comment out the "start on" lines in "/etc/init/gdm.conf" or add "text"
> to "GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT" in "/etc/default/grub" and run
> "update-grub".
>
>
Can't you just change the runlevel ?
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