Re: How to get out of GNOME?

From: Jonathan Chen (jonc_at_chen.org.nz)
Date: 10/31/04

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To: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net>

    On Sat, Oct 30, 2004 at 10:27:41PM -0700, Jay O'Brien wrote:
    > Andrew Jones wrote:
    > > Jay O'Brien wrote:
    > >>
    > >>Ok, what DO I do to shut down gnome if I don't want it running?
    > >>
    > >
    > > ctrl+alt+backspace. It crashes the xserver though, but it'll exit.
    >
    > Nope. It doesn't work for me. With gdm/X running, ctl+alt+bksp goes
    > first to black screen then comes back with a new logon window. If I
    > do it enough times, it reports to the virtual terminal "The display
    > server has been shut down about 6 times in the last 90 seconds, it
    > is likely that something bad is going on. I will wait for two minutes
    > before trying again on display :0." and then it comes back on.

    Turn the gdm entry in /etc/ttys to "off". kill -HUP 1. Then kill the
    gdm process. 

    -- 
Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
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