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Re: [LUG] Killing X11 and making it stay dead!

 

On Sun, 2010-01-24 at 09:50 +0000, tom wrote:
> Robin Cornelius wrote:
> > tom wrote:
> >   
> >> I've got a viglen which is a bit slow under X - but that is the only way
> >> to configure some things so I'd like to run X11 from time to time: startx
> >> I was using xfce4 but just trying lxde and thats a lot lighter on the
> >> cpu: anyone know an ncurses one?
> >> I want to kill or shutdown x  either gracefully or with prejudice. ???
> >> Also how can I set it so it doesnt start on bootup - tried
> >> sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove
> >> but it seems to put itself back in somehow... (x)ubuntu being "helpfull"
> >> I guess
> >> Tom te tom te tom
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>     
> >
> >
> >   
> Neither top/bottom or middle posting!! Is this the new etiquette or have 
> I (or you) missed something?
> Tom te tom te tom
> 
> 
If you want to not run the xserver just do 
boot init 3 (or less) at the  grub boot loader screen.

edit the /boot/grub.conf

to keep it 

Regards

Kevin Lucas
Minions Post Master(Sub) reprieved repressed(possibly!Definitely!)
Po House, Minions,
Liskeard Cornwall 
PL14 5LE
01579363386


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