How do I shutdown gdm, kdm or xdm?

[ExCIA]

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Hello

I'm using the 'stable' release of Debian using kernel 2.4 and I want to know how to shutdown gdm, kdm or xdm just to save system resources?

I mean, when I go back to the command prompt and type gdm it'll say gdm is already running. Aborting!

How?

The other thing, how do I go straight to the command prompt when I logout of gdm, kdm or xdm instead of the logon menu?

Thanks in advance.

[smindinvern]

you can get to a command prompt by changing tty's - Ctrl+Alt+F(#), once your there you can kill gdm or whatever by doing:

ps -xwff | grep "gdm" # again, whatever login thingy you're using

then issue:

kill -9 <gdm's-pid-number> # pid is listed as the nimber on the left side of ps -xwff

you will also want to kill X:

ps -xwff | grep "X" # repeat same process to kill

[sdousley]

if it's the same as my computer, even tho it's gdm, stoppin the xdm will infact kill gdm as it's xdm that started it, so to stop gdm try

/etc/init.d/xdm stop

[ExCIA]

This is what I did, which also works:

/etc/init.d/gdm stop

The rest of your suggestions work too.

Thank you.

[sdousley]

was it

/etc/init.d/gdm stop

or

/etc/init.d/xdm stop

that worked?
Cos i cant for some reason stop gdm, to do that i have to stop xdm

[ExCIA]

I had to use /etc/init.d/gdm stop in order to stop Gnome and to stop X Window I had to use /etc/init.d/xdm stop.