I am using my backup computer as a server. It's running Debian and I want to kill everything gnome related to save memory. I'm accessing remotely through ssh.
Any ideas?
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1By "killing" you mean disabling for a moment, or removing it entirely?– slhckOct 12, 2012 at 9:13
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Disabling for a moment. Shutting it down, if you will.– CptAJOct 12, 2012 at 9:16
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1which debian release is it?– wnrphOct 12, 2012 at 9:30
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It's debian 6.0.4– CptAJOct 12, 2012 at 9:40
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Your Gnome Desktop Manager Session is running in the Xserver. Both are just normal services (daemons) your system is starting at boot.
It seems, that X is a child-Process of the Desktop Manager in Debian/Ubuntu. So you have to stop that one (On Debian this might be gdm, on Ubuntu ligthdm)
You can stop gdm for this session by using its init-script, with sudo or as root:
/etc/init.d/gdm3 stop
Or you can remove it from the list of daemons started:
update-rc.d <daemon> disable
See: http://wiki.debian.org/Daemon
If you are not sure which desktop manager is in use, you can either look for the scripts in /etc/init.d/ or you can type
ps -eF | grep dm
to search for all running processes containing "dm" (this might yield much more than just your dm though).
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1Ah I see, I just tried it. The thing is, if you stop a service, its "children" will be stopped too. I thought it was X -> gdm/lightdm -> gnome/other. You have to stop the login manager process. It depends on your Debian version. For Ubuntu and Raspbian its lightdm, but I guess you will see a script called "gdm" in /etc/init.d/. That's the one. /etc/init.d/gdm stop Oct 12, 2012 at 9:28
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But it will come back after a restart. For a server, I would deactivate the service with update-rc.d Oct 12, 2012 at 9:51
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