I've just installed Xubuntu on an older computer. I want the option of running the GUI some of the time (such as for the Synaptic Package Manager), but I want to boot into text mode all of the time and run startx when needed.
So I go to edit /etc/inittab and change the default runlevel so that the GUI doesn't start on boot, except there is no inittab. Instead, there's this entirely new thing called "Upstart".
I've been on the Upstart pages and on the Ubuntu forums. Everyone is fawning over the new Upstart and how great it is going to be, but no one is saying how you can get rid of the GUI login in Upstart.
All I want to do is change "id:5:initdefault:" to "id:3:initdefault:", but I can't find anything on the Upstart pages to let me know how to do that in Upstart. Before you ask, I have read everything in /etc/event.d, and I still don't understand any of the scripts.
People have said that Upstart will yield to a /etc/inittab you create yourself, but I can't find any information on copying the information out of Upstart and changing it to make a homemade /etc/inittab. I'm a little worried about an /etc/inittab with a single line, if Upstart is going to rely entirely on the /etc/inittab.
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