Unable to disable display-manager.service

xamindar · 2015-01-15 23:59:12

I'm really trying to like systemd but every time I try to use it I can never get it to do what its own documentation says it will do. I need to disable the display manager as I am turning this old laptop into a "headless" server. I can initiate "systemctl stop display-manager.service" and it will shut down the display manger. However, when I type "systemctl disable display-manager.service" I get no indication that it did anything and sure enough upon reboot my display manager is starting up again.

Why does systemd have to be to complicated and why can't it do what it states it is supposed to do?

Does anyone know how I can disable the display manager short of uninstalling all related packages? What happened to the days of just removing an init.d symlink? It was so much simpler.

xamindar · 2015-01-16 00:09:58

Oh wait I think I got it. Had to disable something called "slim". Do Idea what that was nor did I see it listed anywhere under /etc/systemd but it seems to have done the trick.

Lone_Wolf · 2015-01-16 16:10:53

Slim IS a display manager and YOU chose, installed and configured it.

Scimmia · 2015-01-16 16:20:01

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Slim IS a display manager and YOU chose, installed and configured it.

...assuming he's using Arch. Manjaro uses Slim by default IIRC. Edit, nope, it's ArchBang that uses it by default.

Last edited by Scimmia (2015-01-16 16:22:48)

xamindar · 2015-01-16 19:34:41

Lone_Wolf wrote:

Slim IS a display manager and YOU chose, installed and configured it.

Yeah been a while since I installed Arch on this laptop so I forgot.

Thanks.

Arch Linux

#1 2015-01-15 23:59:12

Unable to disable display-manager.service

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Re: Unable to disable display-manager.service

#3 2015-01-16 16:10:53

Re: Unable to disable display-manager.service

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Re: Unable to disable display-manager.service

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