Preventing KDE from restarting

[Oren Almog]

Hi

I am looking for an easy way to shutdown kde. If I ctrl-alt-backspace, the
xserver and kdm restart automatically. Is there a way to make it quit
directly to console?

Thanks.

[Alphons "Fonz" van Werven]

Post by Oren Almog
I am looking for an easy way to shutdown kde. If I ctrl-alt-backspace, the
xserver and kdm restart automatically. Is there a way to make it quit
directly to console?

There's probably a line in /etc/ttys starting kdm. No need to delete it,
just turn it off.

HTH,

Alphons

[Oren Almog]

I do have that line but it is disabled (off).

Looking at /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc does reveal a few options that
can immediately restart a session but they are all either commented out or
not set.

Post by Oren Almog
Hi
I am looking for an easy way to shutdown kde. If I ctrl-alt-backspace,

the

Post by Oren Almog
xserver and kdm restart automatically. Is there a way to make it quit
directly to console?
Thanks.

ttyv8 "/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm -nodaemon" xterm on secure
If so, turn it off and reboot. From that point. If not check rc.conf and
related
directories to see where xdm is being started.

[Mel]

Post by Oren Almog
I do have that line but it is disabled (off).
Looking at /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc does reveal a few options that
can immediately restart a session but they are all either commented out or
not set.

killall kdm-bin.
And next time, start kdm from command line as kdm -nodaemon if you plan on
disabling it at a future time.

[doug]

Post by Mel

Post by Oren Almog
I do have that line but it is disabled (off).
Looking at /usr/local/share/config/kdm/kdmrc does reveal a few options that
can immediately restart a session but they are all either commented out or
not set.

killall kdm-bin.
And next time, start kdm from command line as kdm -nodaemon if you plan on
disabling it at a future time.
--
Mel

This of course does nothing for the next boot.

I assume you are running one of the desktop distributions. Otherwise you have to
make a change to start an X server. We installed PCBSD just to see how they did
things. The version we installed starts kdm from /etc/ttys. The other way would
be to start it from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.

Try: egrep -lr "[xk]dm" .

with pwd = /etc/ and /usr/local/etc/rc.d/