How to disable lightdm?

Question

I want to disable lightdm from autostart. Currenty, I run service lightdm disable from terminal, then run startx.

update-rc.d doesnt help

Wolfgang Noichl · Answer 1 · 2024-08-09T09:57:04.927

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As described here, one can now disable lightdm like this:

systemctl disable lightdm.service

edited Aug 09 '24 at 09:57

answered Nov 06 '15 at 13:10

Wolfgang Noichl

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Jul 23 '16 at 15:20

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lightdm is started by Upstart, not SysV Init. So update-rc.d doesn't work.

Use

 echo  "manual" | sudo tee -a /etc/init/lightdm.override

edited Jul 23 '16 at 15:20

orrymr

answered May 18 '12 at 16:42

Florian Diesch

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

5

If you want to disable lightdm to enable gdm or kdm or any other display manager, enter the following command in the terminal:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure lightdm

Then enter on ok and then select from the list your desired display manager.

The same answer with screenshots is given here: Reset to Default Unity Login

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:24

Community

answered May 18 '12 at 16:30

Nirmik

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jul 14 '16 at 14:00

3

This is handled by display-manager... Disable on systemd and you're done.

# systemctl disable display-manager        
Removed symlink /etc/systemd/system/display-manager.service.

answered Jul 14 '16 at 14:00

Trunet

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Oct 10 '15 at 19:10

1

I just remove the execution bit on the lightdm binary.

chmod -x /usr/sbin/lightdm

Then to re-enable it:

chmod +x /usr/sbin/lightdm

answered Oct 10 '15 at 19:10

John

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