[xubuntu-users] UPDATE: that "stop on runlevel" method worked for a while...

Joe(theWordy)Philbrook jtwdyp at ttlc.net
Wed Jul 28 13:45:03 UTC 2010


It would appear that on Jul 24, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook did say:

> It would appear that on Jul 23, Tim Henderson did say:
> 
> > > [snip]
> > >
> > > What do I gotta do to ditch this annoying pop-up? And boot directly to
> > > console login????
> > >
> > 
> > Sorry for all the replies Joe, but I finally got to test this and get 
> > the answer 100% right!
<snip>
> > To change this now, you can change the run level for which to *not* 
> > start gdm.  Here's how:  (other variants apply fwiw)
> > 
> > /etc/init/gdm.conf
> > 
> > stop on runlevel [016]
> > ..should be...
> > stop on runlevel [0136]
> > 
> > Now we change the run level to 3:
<snip>
> > Feel free to alter the script as you wish.  You could make gmd *only* 
> > start on level 5 for instance.  Regardless, this works :)
> 
<snip>
> While I'd prefer that the focus switched to tty1 by itself like it used to,
> but it is NOT a problem. And I will get used to selecting the tty in which
> I wish to login... Plus this method feels so much cleaner than that fubar
> kludge...

UPDATE: that worked for about a week, then for some reason the pop-up came
back... Which could have been a one-time fluke. But I'll never know
because my immeadiate solution was to remove gdm, & install slim. Which
appearently still listens to to rc.d settings because: 

update-rc.d -f slim remove
update-rc.d slim stop 20 2 3 4 5 .

was sufficiant to keep slim from actualy running. And as a bonus, this way
I don't need to use <alt>+<F1> to login on tty1...

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