Re: how to stop gdm from loading?

["Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero" <famrom idecnet com>]

jh0u hotmail com (2001-01-31 at 1658.34 -0800):
> I recently installed helix-gnome and I would rather not have gdm start 
> automatically. Is there a way to accomplish this?

What distro? Under some (RH, ie) open /etc/inittab and change the
"id:5:initdefault:" line to "id:3:initdefault:" so it does not start
in X mode (run level 5), but only text mode (run level 3). That way
the "x:5:respawn:/etc/X11/prefdm -nodaemon" line is not executed
(which in RH is the responsable of launching XDM, GDM, KDM or whatever
DM you have).

GSR