{"id":1311,"date":"2012-09-28T09:54:27","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T09:54:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1311"},"modified":"2012-09-28T09:54:27","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T09:54:27","slug":"disable-lightdm-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/?p=1311","title":{"rendered":"Disable LightDM Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can disable GDM with the following command:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Code:<\/div>\n<pre dir=\"ltr\">echo \"manual\" | sudo tee -a \/etc\/init\/gdm.override<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>The splash screen can cause some problems, so I would suggest you to disable it. Edit the \/etc\/default\/grub file and replace the line\u00a0<strong>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=&#8221;quiet splash&#8221;<\/strong>\u00a0with\u00a0<strong>GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=&#8221;quiet&#8221;<\/strong>. Then generate a new Grub2 config file:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Code:<\/div>\n<pre dir=\"ltr\">sudo update-grub<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you want to start an X session from the virtual console, simply run:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Code:<\/div>\n<pre dir=\"ltr\">startx<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>or start GDM:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Code:<\/div>\n<pre dir=\"ltr\">sudo service gdm start<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n<p>If you want to re-enable GDM, then simply remove the .override file:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>Code:<\/div>\n<pre dir=\"ltr\">sudo rm \/etc\/init\/gdm.override<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can disable GDM with the following command: Code: echo &#8220;manual&#8221; | sudo tee -a \/etc\/init\/gdm.override The splash screen can cause some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-1311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-info-on-tech","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.designed79.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}