This includes a default DE and if you've been using gnome that will probably be it. From there you can start X with the command startx. Once the dm is disabled, you boot to a login console. I don't have an unmodified debian system at hand, so I can't say which if any that will be - possibly 2. If you don't do this, you boot to a graphical login (that's the dm = display manager), and then whenever you quit X (which should be as easy as ctrl-alt-backspace - try it, but close your apps first), the DM will respawn another graphical login, making it impossible to escape the GUI.Īnother possibility with debian is to check in /etc/rc.d for a runlevel which does not start the dm, and make that the initdefault in /etc/inittab. The instructions to disable xdm/kdm/gdm/whichever-dm-you-have is correct. Trying out some of the things in goldilocks' answer $ sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm stop i just want to be able to run firefox without showing all the other desktop things such as the clock and the menu bars, etc. i can still get the gui back on ctrl+alt+f7 by entering the following into tty2: $ sudo /etc/init.d/lightdm startīut this is not what i want. So attempting to specify a display: $ export DISPLAY='0.0'Īnd now i'm stuck. moving to tty2 (by pressing ctrl+alt+f2) and attempting to open firefox: $ firefox & init.d/lightdmĪnd the gui is back up and running again after the reboot! so this clearly did not have the desird effect. Īdding system startup for /etc/init.d/lightdm. Removing any system startup links for /etc/init.d/lightdm. Update-rc.d: warning: /etc/init.d/lightdm missing LSB informationĭisabling system startup links for /etc/init.d/lightdm. Obviously I will need to run X11 to load GUI programs - that's fine, but I'm looking to boot up into text mode and then just execute GUI programs as needed.ĭoing some tests on an ubuntu 12.04 virtualbox vm (hopefully not too different to debian 7?). turning off the desktop interface GUI on bootup. ![]() enabling the GUI on terminal f1 so that i can run gui programs (without showing the full desktop interface).If this is feasible, please could someone provide full instructions for: ![]() I was wondering if I could temporarily test out the method of starting the GUI on one of the other terminals (eg ctrl+alt+f1) to see if there are any problems? Will this work? Will it be equivalent to starting the GUI when booting without a GUI? I have found some instructions for disabling the GUI on startup with Debian, however I am reluctant to try them out for fear of being locked out of using the web browser once I do this (I will need it to seek help using the browser if I get stuck). i currently have gnome desktop and Debian 7 installed. I already do a similar thing when sshing in to other machines on the LAN - it is handy if I need to visualise csv data for example in soffice. I would like to start Debian without the GUI and then just type commands in to launch the desired programs ( which are located on my local machine), eg $ chromium-browser &
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