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How to stop the DM?
Do you mean you want to shut down the GUI display entirely?
I cannot think why, but if i wanted to do that I would turn off the auto-start for X (or Wayland) so that I could start and stop it manually. (See startx, etc)
I could tell you how easy that was using the init level system of Sysv-init, but I believe Salix uses SystemD so you would have to look up how to do it. (Or get someone who has done that to advise.)
Distribution: SOLARIS/BSD-like, some Debian-like, some Arch-like, some GENTO-like, some RH-like, some slacky-like
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Originally Posted by wpeckham
Your original question was
so that was the question I did address.
How to stop the DM?
Do you mean you want to shut down the GUI display entirely?
I cannot think why, but if i wanted to do that I would turn off the auto-start for X (or Wayland) so that I could start and stop it manually. (See startx, etc)
I could tell you how easy that was using the init level system of Sysv-init, but I believe Salix uses SystemD so you would have to look up how to do it. (Or get someone who has done that to advise.)
Correct. I just thought somebody would now if there is a service for DM. As one can see the service list in my OP there isn't. Sure I can prevent startxfce4 starting from xinitrc or inittab as I usually do but I always wonder if there is another way.
Thanks!
Easiest distro-agnostic way to identify the current display manager is probably "inxi -Sxxx"
Good advice for the original question as stated, but they changed the question. What the OP really wanted to know was how to stop and start the DM. They have not explained WHY, but here we are.
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