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

[Peter Walker <peter.walker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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
To stop X running automatically change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab.

Cheers,

Pete


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