Ubuntu – How to disable GDM and Graphical User Selection

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The new Ubuntu features a completely unkillable GDM. Is there a way to disable it?

It is not enabled in services , the GDM startup script is deleted, it is removed from update.rc but it still starts up.

How do I disable GDM and Graphical User Selection?

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In Ubuntu 10.04 you should refer to documentation for Upstart which handles starting of tasks and services during boot, stopping them during shutdown and supervising them while the system is running.

Upstart handle start of gdm, so you should edit /etc/init/gdm.conf

sudo vi /etc/init/gdm.conf    # or use nano if vi is unfamiliar

Default runlevel in ubuntu 10.04 is 2 so you must change this line

stop on runlevel [016]

adding "2" in the runlevel list

stop on runlevel [0126]

Now you can reboot the system.

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In recent versions of Ubuntu, gdm has been replaced with lightdm - this is why you don't have a gdm.conf. To set lightdm to be started manually, create an 'override' file for its init configuration:

echo 'manual' | sudo dd of=/etc/init/lightdm.override

(this just creates a file, called /etc/init/lightdm.override, containing a single line that says manual)

This way, lightdm will only be started when you invoke:

sudo service lightdm start

and to stop it:

sudo service lightdm stop

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