drakxservices, drakproxy and so on without GUI

[maaxx]

how can i keep drakxservices (and other drak* commands) from opening the GUI while i am in X11?

i didnt found any ´--without-x11´ or alike option to pass to this kind of commands.. so it is possible? i find it really annoying having to ctrl_alt_f2 every time i dont want it to open the gui

[bvc]

Welcome to the board!

I'm not understanding the question or problem I guess. Ummm...don't run them? I d/k....could you be more specific?

[maaxx]

thanks for welcoming me :-)

ok, I´ll try to be more specific

let suppose I start the X server and enter the Gnome Desktop Env.

I start the gnome-terminal and do: su -

now, as the root i type: drakxservices in the gnome-terminal ..this will launch a GUI

if, however, I launch drakxservices before i start the X server and login to the Gnome D.E. a ncurses(or whatever) based interface will be shown .. i want to be able to do that in gnome too.

[Steve Scrimpshire]

This is a workaround:

 

export OLD_DISP=$DISPLAY && export DISPLAY= && drakxservices && export DISPLAY=$OLD_DISP

(there's a space between the first DISPLAY= and the &&, in case you can't see it. If you don't like typing all that and want to always use the ncurses-based versions of the drakxtools, make an alias for them in root's /root/.bashrc:

 

alias drakxservices="export OLD_DISP=$DISPLAY && export DISPLAY= && drakxservices && export DISPLAY=$OLD_DISP"

 

and add other entries for the other drakx stuff you want to run through ncurses, also.

Edited April 19, 2004 by Steve Scrimpshire