Don't start X at boot

[cantab]

Heya,

I want to know how to set things up so X doesn't start at boot. (Because I'm putting my computer in a server room for the university vacation, and will only be remote accessing it). What do I need to do? I knew how in old-style init, but it's all changed now right?

[toad]

Re: Don't start X at boot

Why not just uninstall X/KDE?

[Nate]

Re: Don't start X at boot

Here's an old suggestion regarding doing this in gnome. From the console type:

sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove

I'm guessing you could change the gdm to kdm and that would prevent kdm from starting at boot. To restore gdm (change to kdm) when done they recommend this:

update-rc.d -f gdm defaults

Here's the thread I found this in: http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/deb...logon-box.html

[cantab]

Re: Don't start X at boot

Thanks, that did the trick.

[toad]

Re: Don't start X at boot

Nice on, Nate. That got rid of the login screen. All X related programmes are still there, though. If that is no problem (I dunno, some 200MBs of space we are talking about here) then all is hunky dory If not, uninstall the kubuntu-desktop package as well. And then some using sudo apt-get autoremove.