[LightDM] splash screen only problem

[Vitaly Kosenko]

>
> Actually this is disabling the whole lightdm, so you disable everything.
> You want to actually choose your session type from the LightDM greeter.
> Depending on the greeter you should have a choice to switch between the
> installed sessions, as long as there are multiple.


I am using Ubuntu 14.04.

If I fix this how can I choose to load into terminal instaed of lightdm
sessions?

2014-11-18 5:35 GMT+05:00 Andre Klärner <kandre at ak-online.be>:

> Hi Vitaly,
>
> On Mon 17.11.2014 19:14:58, Robert Ancell wrote:
> > On Tue Nov 18 2014 at 01:15:00 Vitaly Kosenko <vitaly.kosenko at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Hello! I used lxdm and want to try awesome window manager. To turn off
> > > autostart of lxdm I did:
> > >
> > > echo  "manual" | sudo tee -a /etc/init/lightdm.override
>
> Actually this is disabling the whole lightdm, so you disable everything.
>
> You want to actually choose your session type from the LightDM greeter.
> Depending on the greeter you should have a choice to switch between the
> installed sessions, as long as there are multiple.
>
> > > After reboot I see only splash screen and nothing else. Ctrl+Alt+Del
> only
> > > available for reboot. How can I move to terminal to remove
> > > /etc/init/lightdm.override? And how can I turn off autostart of lxdm
> > > correctly and boot only with console?
>
> Boot into the rescue mode from the bootloader - or use a LiveCD/USB drive
> to access your root filesystem without booting it. Also you could try
> SSH'ing into your machine, as longs as you have another device on the same
> network as your machine and the SSH server installed. If you have specific
> questions about this you can ask me off-list (as this list is about
> LightDM).
>
> > What OS / distribution are you using? This question relates to how that
> > distribution starts services like LightDM so you will probably get a
> better
> > answer asking on their mailing lists. Service startup is outside the
> > control of the LightDM project.
>
> Sounds a lot like Ubuntu - at least the first few google search results for
> lightdm.override were on askubuntu and co.
>
> Regards,
> Andre
>
> --
> Andre Klärner
>
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