I don't understand how GDM is starting...

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Published on 2009-11-06T18:38:04Z Indexed on 2010/03/24 9:03 UTC
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I'm on Karmic. I had no keyboard, so I enabled autologin and some other stuff over ssh to get x2x going. Now I can't find what I did. I'm trying to just start X and XBMC now. I don't need gnome. I disabled gdm:

sudo update-rc.d -f gdm remove

but it still somehow manages to start on boot. Where can I look around for what I did?

If I stop gdm then startx again, it goes straight to XBMC like I want.

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