How to disable gnome startup ?

[Ghost_Mazal]

Lo Guys ,

I want to disable the graphical desktop automatically starting up at boot. I want it to boot only to terminal. I don't want to remove it completely and still want to be able to start it up with for example "startx" if I need it.

Can this be done ? And if yes how ?

Thanx

[amsterdamharu]

Try this command:

sudo nano /etc/init/gdm.conf
The part:

start on (filesystem
and started dbus
and (drm-device-added card0 PRIMARY_DEVICE_FOR_DISPLAY=1
or stopped udevtrigger))

Can be replaced by:

start on (start-gdm)

To start the graphic login and gnome you can give the following command:

sudo service gdm start
To stop it:

sudo service gdm stop

[pavi_elex]

Disable GDM-
sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove
enable GDM-
sudo update-rc.d -f gdm defaults