[Cialug] X server

[Todd Walton]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 8:24 AM, Mathew R. Phillips
<mathew.phillips at wartburg.edu> wrote:
> Last night my dad and I figured out how to run a single application on an
> xserver without having a desktop. I know that you could setup one of the
> runlevels to only start the x server so one could do this. But i still want
> my default runlevel to be the full desktop environment. but i was wondering
> if it was possible to set something up so that you could select an option
> from the grub menu that would just boot up an x server and start firefox for
> example instead of having to go through changing the runlevel once its
> already booted. I don't know how many times i shutoff my computer and then
> realized i had to boot it all the way up into the desktop just to check an
> email. It would be pretty handy to just boot to firefox and not start up kde
> or any of the other daemons other than networking of course.

How much of a speedup to boot are you seeing?

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Todd