[sllug-members]: How do I make gNewSenes headless!?

[Alain Bertrand]

S99kdm is KDM, the KDE Display Manager.  This starts X, and gives the 
graphical login screen.  If you don't want X to run on boot just delete the 
that link, or rename it so it does not start with an S or K (like 
mv /etc/rc3.d/S99kdm /etc/rc3.d/disabled_S99kdm).  Then you will still be 
able to start X manually if you need it by running "/etc/init.d/kdm start".  


Alain Bertrand



On Wednesday 19 December 2007 16:05, Nathan Lane wrote:
> Okay so I found the stuff for runlevel 3, which is what I changed to, and
> here's a listing, but I don't see X or KDE here:
>
> nathanl at nathanl-desktop:/etc/rc3.d$ ls -la
> total 8
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 2007-12-19 08:34 .
> drwxr-xr-x 102 root root 4096 2007-12-19 08:54 ..
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2007-12-11 02:49 S05vbesave ->
> ../init.d/vbesave
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2007-12-11 02:49 S10acpid -> ../init.d/acpid
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   18 2007-12-11 02:49 S10sysklogd ->
> ../init.d/sysklogd
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2007-12-11 02:49 S11klogd -> ../init.d/klogd
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 2007-12-11 02:49 S14ppp -> ../init.d/ppp
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2007-12-11 02:49 S18hplip -> ../init.d/hplip
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   16 2007-12-11 02:49 S19cupsys ->
> ../init.d/cupsys lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 2007-12-11 02:49 S20apmd ->
> ../init.d/apmd lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 2007-12-11 02:49 S20dbus ->
> ../init.d/dbus lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   22 2007-12-11 02:49
> S20hotkey-setup ->
> ../init.d/hotkey-setup
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   21 2007-12-11 02:49 S20laptop-mode ->
> ../init.d/laptop-mode
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2007-12-11 02:49 S20makedev ->
> ../init.d/makedev
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   24 2007-12-11 02:49 S20nethack-common ->
> ../init.d/nethack-common
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   19 2007-12-11 02:49 S20powernowd ->
> ../init.d/powernowd
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2007-12-11 02:49 S20rsync -> ../init.d/rsync
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 2007-12-19 08:32 S20ssh -> ../init.d/ssh
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   21 2007-12-11 02:49 S25bluez-utils ->
> ../init.d/bluez-utils
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   15 2007-12-11 02:49 S25mdadm -> ../init.d/mdadm
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2007-12-11 02:49 S89anacron ->
> ../init.d/anacron
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 2007-12-11 02:49 S89atd -> ../init.d/atd
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   14 2007-12-11 02:49 S89cron -> ../init.d/cron
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2007-12-19 08:34 S91apache2 ->
> ../init.d/apache2
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   17 2007-12-11 02:49 S98usplash ->
> ../init.d/usplash
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   22 2007-12-11 02:49 S99acpi-support ->
> ../init.d/acpi-support
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   13 2007-12-11 02:49 S99kdm -> ../init.d/kdm
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   18 2007-12-11 02:49 S99rc.local ->
> ../init.d/rc.local
> lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root   19 2007-12-11 02:49 S99rmnologin ->
> ../init.d/rmnologin
>
> On Dec 19, 2007 4:01 PM, Nathan Lane <nathamberlane at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Okay Richard Stallman in a recent blog post said that he uses gNewSense
> > headless and uses Gnome every so often, and like him I want to keep KDE,
> > just start up without X running - and I changed my default runmode to 3,
> > which according to all of the articles I've read, is a headless runmode
> > with network access - is this not correct?
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> > On Dec 19, 2007 3:40 PM, Aaron Toponce <aaron.toponce at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Nathan Lane wrote:
> > > > How do I make gNewSense headless? I don't want KDE to run
> > >
> > > automatically
> > >
> > > > anymore and surprisingly, my inittab default was not 5, but 2 for the
> > > > runmode..so unless everything is screwed up in this distro.. anyway I
> > >
> > > was
> > >
> > > > thinking that maybe somebody has another idea as to how to make
> > >
> > > gNewSense
> > >
> > > > headless.  Any ideas?
> > >
> > > You'll need to remove all the packages by hand, if X is already
> > > installed.  That may be somewhat of a pain, so it may be better to just
> > > reinstall, this time, not adding X.  Doing aptitude searches may be the
> > > best approach for that.
> > >
> > > Further, runlevel 2 through 5 are all the same on a debian-based
> > > distro, which includes gNewSense.  X or no X, your default runlevel
> > > should be 2.
> > >
> > >  If X is installed, it will launch it, otherwise it won't.
> > >
> > > --
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