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On Tuesday 11 January 2011 23:40:55 Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> I found the nox keyword searching in Google but couldn't figure out how |
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> to use it correctly. It does exactly what I was looking for. |
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I define a separate run-level for no-x*, which doesn't contain xdm and |
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also omits various other things that are only needed when running an X |
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session (lm_sensors, vboxdrv, alsasound, ...). Then I put a separate |
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entry into grub.conf for it and select it at boot time. |
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It doesn't get used very often, but when I need it nothing else will do. |
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Very handy for, e.g., major upgrades of KDE, when I'd rather not carry |
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on running old-KDE and risk starting a program thoughtlessly that might |
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be either old-KDE or new-KDE. |
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Single-user mode won't do for this because I want the range of VTs to be |
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available to do work in. |
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* like this: |
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# mkdir /etc/runlevels/no-x |
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# rc-update add <package> no-x |
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Rgds |
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Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23. |
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