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Operating Systems Solaris opensolaris in non UI mode Post 302302356 by badriprasad on Monday 30th of March 2009 06:56:04 PM

03-30-2009

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opensolaris in non UI mode

Hi,

I have just installed OpenSolaris 10 on a Pentium III laptop. When I boot the machine, I get to the gdm driven login screen and upon login I can see my colorful desktop with different icons (like firefox and package manager).
My machine is low on resources and it was running too slow - so I decided to switch to the non graphical mode (I wanted to dump the GUI in favor of CLI)
I ran
#svcadm -v disable gdm

Is that the right thing to do for my requirement?

Soon after running the foregoing command, my GUI disappeared and I was left with a terminal to run commands. I ran top and could see that the memory use had reduced significnantly
However, when I tried to run firefox from the CLI
#nohup firefox &

the system did not bring up the browser. Is it that I can not view the browser in non GUI mode?

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gdm-restart

gdm-restart(1m)                                                    User Commands                                                   gdm-restart(1m)

NAME

       gdm-restart, gdm-safe-restart, gdm-stop - stop or restart GDM

SYNOPSIS

       gdm-restart

       gdm-safe-restart

       gdm-stop

DESCRIPTION

       gdm-restart stops and restarts GDM by sending a HUP signal to the GDM daemon. This command immediately terminates all sessions and logs out
       users currently logged in with GDM.

       gdm-safe-restart stops and restarts GDM by sending a USR1 signal to the GDM daemon. GDM is restarted as soon as all users log out.

       gdm-stop stops GDM by sending a TERM signal to the GDM daemon.

FILES

       The following files are used by this application:

       /usr/bin/gdm-restart    Executable to stop and restart GDM

       /usr/bin/gdm-safe-restarExecutable to stop and restart GDM safely

       /usr/bin/stop           Executable to stop GDM

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE         |      ATTRIBUTE VALUE        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability                 |SUNWgnome-display-mgr        |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface stability          |External                     |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       Latest version of the GNOME Desktop User Guide for your platform.

       gdm(1), gdmXnestchooser(1), gdmflexiserver(1), gdmphotosetup(1), gdmsetup(1), gdmthemetester(1), gdmconfig(1m)

NOTES

       Written by Brian Cameron, Sun Microsystems Inc., 2004.

SunOS 5.10                                                          1 Sep 2004                                                     gdm-restart(1m)