[CentOS] Turning off Gnome and other stuff

Mon Apr 28 18:09:32 UTC 2008
John Wojnaroski <castle at mminternet.com>

OK!  we're building the system for NASA/Ames for their Human Factors 
lab.  If you have about $85-100K laying around we'ld be happy to build 
you one too  ;-)

See www.lfstech.com

John


>Um, I don't know the answer, but I want one too......(737 Flight
>simulator....)
>Dennis 
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf
>Of John Wojnaroski
>Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 10:12 AM
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>Subject: [CentOS] Turning off Gnome and other stuff
>
>Hi.
>
>Just did a Centos5.1 on a dual-core 64 bit machine,  sweet!!!
>
>But would like to turn off the desktop and just about all the programs
>started when the X server is fired up.  The  machine will be driving a full
>scale 737NG cockpit flight simulator and we really don't need anything
>beyond the X server and an xorg.conf file to setup the two dual-headed
>graphics cards.
>
>The cockpit will be controlled from a remote instructor's station and we do
>NOT want anything showing up on cockpit displays other than what is present
>in the actual cockpit, no screen login prompts, no menus,  no desktops,
>icons, frames, pop-ups, screensaveres, etc.  Any window manager if present
>must allow the apps to render all opengl displays in a "full screen" mode. 
>
>Started through the init, startup, and Xsessions scripts and files to shut
>things down, but kept having problems following all the sequences, scripts,
>and finding where everything was located, not to mention error and warning
>msgs.  In addition, it appears the Gnome program or whatever may be
>over-riding and restoring configurations.
>
>Thought of posting to the Gnome users forums, but since this is what Centos
>setup during the install and RH has a slightly different way of organizing
>files and scripts, decided to start here with the question.
>
>Is there a simple way to turn all the applets and such off and start from
>the command line?  Idea is to come up with a default level of 3 via the
>inittab, due a remote login and then a command line entry "startx &" 
>to start the X server, possibly a minimum window manager, and then go right
>into the sim programs.
>
>Regards
>John W.
>
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