<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 4:55 PM, Nicolas <<a href="mailto:nicolas.ea@gmail.com" target="_blank">nicolas.ea@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> Thanks, I was looking something like disabling lightdm startup during boot only. Since I am happy with my current xubuntu installation, and i just want that little modification (start in command line mode) I'll keep looking. Anyway, just for curiosity I will try distros mentioned and learn about the boot process. Cheers. -- xubuntu-users mailing list <a href="mailto:xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users</a> </blockquote></div> Did you know that you can press ctrl+alt+f1(or f2 or ...) to get to a virtual console, and return to lightdm or running graphical session by pressing alt+f7 ? You can also check out this article: <a href="http://www.techienote.com/2012/05/how-to-disable-gui-boot-in-ubuntu-12-04.html">http://www.techienote.com/2012/05/how-to-disable-gui-boot-in-ubuntu-12-04.html</a>