[NBLUG/talk] Ubuntu without booting into X

[Dave Sisley]

Bill Kendrick wrote:
> On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 11:12:26AM -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
>   
>> If I started X with "sudo gdm" I pretty much got a normal X experience,
>> but some things are missing like the user-switching thing that displays
>> your name at the upper right. I also felt uneasy having to use sudo to
>> start gdm.
>>
>>     
>
> I remember old, old RedHat used 'runlevels' to bring X up.
> ('runlevel 5' was X, 'runlevel 2' or '3' was console-only)
>
>   
Not so old:  It's still there in Fedora 10. 

Does Ubuntu not have an /etc/inittab file?
> On Ubuntu, I think you can simply remove the symlink to
> '/etc/init.d/gdm' from your '/etc/rc4.d/' (I use Kubuntu, so I actually
> have an "S30kdm" in there... it's probably something like "S30gdm").
>
> Then use:
>
>   sudo /etc/init.d/gdm start
>
> rather than:
>
>   sudo gdm
>
> to turn X and GDM back on...
>
>
> Maybe?
>
>   
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