On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 06:39:15 -0500 Damon Register <damon_register@comcast.net> wrote:
Are you saying that even though you were at run level 3, you were still getting a graphical logon screen?
I wasn't getting the graphical logon screen on boot-up, but I was going directly into Fluxbox. In the past, I'd have to type my user name and password at a system prompt, and then type startx, to begin the X session. And when I exited Fluxbox, I would get the graphical logon screen, not a system prompt. All this while in runlevel 3. And you think *you're* confused! Imagine my reaction! Another poster suggested adding Fluxbox as a session type, which I did. But I prefer the old fashioned way...it confuses the kids! And Anders' tidy solution was the following:
switch to a text mode login with ctrl-alt-f1, log in as root and run 'rcxdm stop' to stop the graphical login, and run 'insserv -r xdm' to make it not start at boot
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