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Hello,
I Magic' ed and decide to install X-Server on my brand new Gentoox Pro Installation.
But How to disable the X-Server Start on boot?
I want to start the X-Server Manually by typing "startx" after a login.

Why i wanted to do that?
Because i discovered my old PC feeling with Gentoox.
Thats why a Linux Beginner like me uses Gentoox Pro.
I want to know the System, where the Gui is screwed in.

Like in good old Windows for Workgroups days with my Dos Knowledge.

I started to use Lftp and IRSSI and........... I loveit.

The Console is great but the beginning is very hard.
There is no autoexec.bat or config.sys
As you see i couldnt find the surely simple "startx" in Boot Config files. Am I right?

And by the way, thanks for that nice Ported Distro.

there is no autoexec.bat or config.sys cause this is linux.

But you always have a search button on this forums that is more helpful than autoexec.

Just do a search for startx and you surely should find the answer

Edit /etc/conf.d/local.start

At the end of local.start locate and comment out the lines as shown below
use nano editor, or vi whatever you like. To comment out a line in this file add a # as the first character in that line. There are 6 lines to add the '#' as the lead character then save and reboot.

===Following taken from /etc/conf.d/local.start===

echo -e " Your network settings are as follows:\n \033[01;31meth0:\033[01;34m" > /tmp/eth0.addr && ifconfig | grep inet -m1 >> /tmp/eth0.addr && cat /tmp/eth0.addr
echo -en "\033[00m\n"

#if [ -f /usr/bin/gdm ]; then
# echo -n "Starting X" && sleep 1 && echo -n "." && sleep 1 && echo -n "." && sleep 1 && echo -n "." && sleep 1 && echo -n "." && sleep 1 && echo -n "."
#fi

/bin/led gggg
#if [ -f /usr/bin/gdm ]; then
# /usr/bin/gdm 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null
#fi
chmod 777 /dev/dsp
rm -rf /root/.runningmagic 1> /dev/null 2> /dev/null

===End of /etc/conf.d/local.start===

kaos_engr

Just move default init from 5 to 3 -> /etc/inittab

Bye

The default init still was 3.
The tip Before with the # before the lines worked very well, thanks.

But i still with "Search words" didnt find the answer on another topic in this forum.

Changing inits wont work, for future reference.

Gentoo(X) doesn't use runlevels like other other Linux Distributions.

You setup /etc/runlevels/<name e.g. default>/<with links to scripts in /etc/init.d to startup>. You can add your own named runlevel and configure your startup requirements. Next, set the runlevel name for the startup level (lN) in /etc/inittab Levels l0-l7 are available, some have a specific function like l0 for shutdown, l1 single user and l6 for reboot. You can configure the others l3-l5

and set the defaultrunlevel in /etc/inittab

Pieces cut from /etc/inittab
======================================

id:3:initdefault:

# Further system initialization, brings up the boot runlevel.
rc::bootwait:/sbin/rc boot

l0:0:wait:/sbin/rc shutdown
l1:S1:wait:/sbin/rc single
l2:2:wait:/sbin/rc nonetwork
l3:3:wait:/sbin/rc default
l4:4:wait:/sbin/rc default
l5:5:wait:/sbin/rc default
l6:6:wait:/sbin/rc reboot
#z6:6:respawn:/sbin/sulogin
===========================================
l3-l5 are all set the same in GentooX. To configure different levels setup a new /etc/runlevel directory and add the startup items you want for that level and adjust the lN entry to call that new runlevel configuration.

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kaos_engr