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rikiwarren
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 Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 5:46 am Post subject: Switching between X and no X using rc. |
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I really thought this would work.
I added xdm to my default runlevel, then realized that I wanted an Xless runlevel to do maintenance type things.
The Xless runlevel should have everything that default has, except running xdm.
So, I went into the /etc/runlevels and copied everything form default to a new directory nox.
I then ran rc-update del xdm nox.
Then, to test it, I ran rc nox.
Well, it did shut off the x server, but it came right back on again.
How do I get this to work?
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Miles
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| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 9:26 am Post subject: |
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If you need to stop the X server just type:
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/xdm stop |
Do what you need to do then turn it back on:
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/xdm start |
There's no need to create a separate run level. |
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rikiwarren
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| Posted: Wed Oct 30, 2002 11:24 pm Post subject: |
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| Miles wrote: | If you need to stop the X server just type:
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/xdm stop |
Do what you need to do then turn it back on:
| Code: | | /etc/init.d/xdm start |
There's no need to create a separate run level. |
Actually, this was the first thing I tried. It shut down X, but then restarted. (basically the same behavior as the runlevels).
Does it have something to do with using KDM versus others?
I'll try it again and see what happens.
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Miles
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| Posted: Thu Oct 31, 2002 12:37 am Post subject: |
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Hmm...that's odd. Stopping xdm on my system stops X. xdm is just a wrapper for what ever login manager you're using (defined in /etc/rc.conf).
What run level did you add xdm to? |
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