Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-02-13 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Ibrahim Shaame ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020131 23:18]: --- Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: There's a short FAQ on GNU/Linux X display manager disabling you may find useful, at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/xdm-disable.html Thank you. I think before sending

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-02-01 Thread Ibrahim Shaame
I think before sending him to FAQ you could have given him a quick answer and then refer him to the URL. The most discouraging thing in Linux for a beginner is to start going through thousands of pages of man, FAQs and HOWTOs which are long in first place, and difficult to understand for a new

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-02-01 Thread ben
On Thursday 31 January 2002 11:15 pm, Ibrahim Shaame wrote: I think before sending him to FAQ you could have given him a quick answer and then refer him to the URL. The most discouraging thing in Linux for a beginner is to start going through thousands of pages of man, FAQs and HOWTOs which

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-01-31 Thread Alan Shrimpton
Okay now X starts atomatically but I rather it not. I know it was my fault because I said yes to have it as default.. Now, how can I change back. Also once running how do I stop it? Cheers Al - Original Message - From: Alan Shrimpton [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Paul 'Baloo' Johnson [EMAIL

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-01-31 Thread benfoley
On Thursday 31 January 2002 12:33 am, Alan Shrimpton wrote: Okay now X starts atomatically but I rather it not. I know it was my fault because I said yes to have it as default.. Now, how can I change back. Also once running how do I stop it? [snip] depending on whether it starts from xdm,

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-01-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
On Fri, 2002-02-01 at 01:30, benfoley wrote: depending on whether it starts from xdm, gdm, or kdm, you can run update-rc.d whichever?dm remove when you reboot, you'll have a console prompt. to run x from there, use startx. No need to reboot. Just go to a console (Alt-Ctrl F1) and

Re: Netscape4, Mozilla - Now what is X? - How to stop X?

2002-01-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 09:33 PM +1300, Alan Shrimpton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Okay now X starts atomatically but I rather it not. I know it was my fault because I said yes to have it as default.. Now, how can I change back. Also once running how do I stop it? There's a short FAQ on