--- Jonny Fransson <bluesky@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi all > > First of all I am not a subscriber to this list so > please reply > personally. > > I was writing a simple gameserver in windows and was > asked to port > it to GNU platforms using gcc which i am familary > to. My choise when > selecting a package was Debian and when installed I > chosed desktop > environment together whith c/c++ developer pakage. > The installation > went quite well but I am a user who dont like safety > becouse I am > usually locking my self out. Therefore I didn't > create another account > other than the mandatory root. The problem arised > when I the next > morning started the linux machine, it went right > into the desktop > manager > which refused me to log in as root. With no other > account available I > had to log in from a remote machine using PuTTY. > Kill the gdm process > go back to the linux machine again and log in as > root and then startx. > > How can I prevent that Gnome Desktop Manager from > starting up? > I which script or where ever it could be? I have > tried all the usual > way's > from the log in screen but no progress. I am qiute > happy with starting > the server manually but have to log in from remote > to kill a process > seem > like overkill to me. You can however configure gdm from the login screen. Try F10 or click the menu from login. Put in your root password when asked, and then I believe you should be able to "allow root logins" from gdm. Also, to switch from gdm to a text login, you can wait for gdm to come up and then hold control-alt-F1. I'm sure someone will tell you which script to edit to stop gdm entirely. I'm not certain off hand, but I hope these two work arounds are of help. -- Matt Johnson ___________________________________________________________ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
