[wellylug] Window Managers from startx

Ian Sterling xyverz at gmail.com
Mon Sep 27 19:30:55 NZST 2004


> > sudo update-rc.d remove -f xdm (or kdm/gdm, whichever you have running)
> > (This disables the login manager)
> 
> But which is a tad brutal if it's only temporary.
> 
> In fact it tries to start _all_ of xdm/kdm/gdm that are installed, but
> they check for their own name in /etc/X11/default-display-manager before
> they start, so just having none of them in there works quite nicely.

That's something I did not know.  But now I do. :-D  Thanks muchly! 
I'll go make the modifications to my laptop now... Then to see if I
can't get the bloody WPC11 card working ... again...  *sigh*




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