Probably easier, sudo chmod 666 /etc/init/gdm.conf
That removes the execute bit permission from that file but leaves it in
place.
On Mon, 17 Aug 2015, Willem van der Walt wrote:
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 01:24:36
From: Willem van der Walt <wvdwalt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: Linux for blind general discussion <blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: moving back to an old version
Hi,
You can move /etc/init/gdm.conf away from /etc/init directory and X will not
start.
The reason why inittab and all its assosiated goodies disappeared is because
a company called SCO Linux wanted to get some money from other people using
system v or whatever that was called.
They had a patent on that stuff.
I do not think they ever got anything, but the rest of the Unix suppliers
developed their own startup mecanisms in response to SCO's threts.
Obviously, if it is not gdm that starts the gui, it will be another .conf
file in /etc/init that you will have to remove.
HTH, Willem
On Sun, 16 Aug 2015, Tim Chase wrote:
On August 16, 2015, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
I don't really care about the security.
Okay, then at least with that in mind, you should be able to explore
and play around.
My first Project now is to dissable gnome at startup.
Do you Think I will manage it?
I've read about, and it doesn't seem to be hard at all.
It depends on what you mean by "disable Gnome". If you want to run X
at start-up but use a different window-manager, you can do that.
Alternatively, you can swap out the "gdm" (Gnome Display Manager) for
a different one such as "kdm" (KDE's display manager), "xdm", or
"slim". Finally, if you don't want X to start a display-manager
automatically at boot, you can specify a fake one by
modifying /etc/X11/default-display-manager (as root or with sudo) with
a non-existent name such as "none".
In some older iterations, they were set up so that one run-level had
the GUI while others didn't, so you would edit (as root or with sudo)
your /etc/initab and change the "initdefault" line to specify "3" for
"standard multi-user mode with networking" instead of "5" (same as 3
but also start the display-manager for the GUI). I'm not sure why
Debian departed from this industry standard. So the "right" way to
do this in Unix-likes should be to set this to 3 and be done with
it. Except it doesn't work in Debian.
-tim
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