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I would like to stop kdm from starting when my computer boots up. Is there a way to do that? kdm is my only graphical login program, I do not use gdm or xdm.

Lekensteyn
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Disabling it should be as simple as:

sudo mv /etc/init/kdm.conf{,disabled}

The same should be the true for gdm (which also uses a upstart script in /etc/init/).

If you want to fine-tune it, edit /etc/init/kdm.conf and change its start on declarations. Just comment that entire section out and you'll still be able to run sudo start kdm when you want a graphical display.

Oli
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  • @Oli what about if I want to prevent `kdm` and `lightdm`? Will it work ok (I mean log in at system will be ok)? – catch23 Dec 29 '13 at 18:33