well. *that* was exciting. just disabled kdm in the "services" applet, got the "maybe loss of data" are-you-crazy message, and kde promptly died and would not come back. went over to a virtual console and screwed around a little and employed dep's second rule of linux: i dunno, i just did some stuff and then it worked. (dep's first rule of linux is from the old days -- any configuration, large or small takes nine hours.) but i digress . . .
in the old and happy days, there was a file called /etc/inittab. you could edit it to bring about, for instance, a default runlevel 3 -- console, multi-user mode -- (equivalent to runlevel 2 in debian). one could then login at a text-mode login prompt and, if one so chose, type "startx" to go to the window manager and desktop of one's choice. kdm was easily circumvented.
i would much like to do this, but /etc/inittab is gone. i would also like to be rid of the startup screens and the like (in part because all kubuntu does is throw an error in the log saying that it couldn't do the 1600x1200 splash screen, etc., so it's a black screen throughout boot, and in part because i *like* to see the system boot).
somewhere there must be a recipe for this, even as there is a way to establish a root password -- needed, by the way, for at least some kubuntu-supplied configuration tools! -- but i cannot find it. if anyone knows its whereabouts, i'd be much obliged. i do not disparage those who like it to be graphical from the get-go; i am just not among them.
thanks!
in the old and happy days, there was a file called /etc/inittab. you could edit it to bring about, for instance, a default runlevel 3 -- console, multi-user mode -- (equivalent to runlevel 2 in debian). one could then login at a text-mode login prompt and, if one so chose, type "startx" to go to the window manager and desktop of one's choice. kdm was easily circumvented.
i would much like to do this, but /etc/inittab is gone. i would also like to be rid of the startup screens and the like (in part because all kubuntu does is throw an error in the log saying that it couldn't do the 1600x1200 splash screen, etc., so it's a black screen throughout boot, and in part because i *like* to see the system boot).
somewhere there must be a recipe for this, even as there is a way to establish a root password -- needed, by the way, for at least some kubuntu-supplied configuration tools! -- but i cannot find it. if anyone knows its whereabouts, i'd be much obliged. i do not disparage those who like it to be graphical from the get-go; i am just not among them.
thanks!
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