During the installation of Raspian I chose "Start X-Server after boot", but now I want to boot it once without starting the X-Server, so I've got more memory to run a program.
How do I boot without starting the X-Server?
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With the Raspbian image, you can re-run the initial start up script using:
$ sudo raspi-config
and entering your sudo password.
This will bring up the same menu options that you got after first boot.
You do not need to remake all your first boot choices, just use the arrow keys to move to the menu options you want to change.
In your case, selecting:
Start X-server after boot?
and choosing:
no or disable
will sort you out.
Editing to add non gui based options:
As noted in the comments below by @mirk, the exact command for the raspberry is:
sudo update-rc.d lightdm disable
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The raspi-config script creates a GUI menu which allows you to make several system config changes. This portion of the script enables or disables lightdm, the desktop manager used for Raspbian. It uses the same update-rc.d command as is described by Bryan Dunmore. Except Raspbian does not use GDM by default, and the RasPi will barely run it if installed.– zenbikeCommented Aug 10, 2012 at 6:59
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4That's not the answer to the question imho. With raspi-config you setup to boot to CLI permanently while the question asks how to do it once.– MauroCommented Jan 20, 2016 at 15:11
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Yes, if it freezes once the desktop is up, and won't ctrl+alt+f2... how do you open a terminal to run that command? The only thing that seems to work is alt+sysrq+reisub. :(– NoBugsCommented Feb 7, 2017 at 6:23
How X.Org works is that you have a desktop manager that boots the X Server for you. That means that in order to prevent X Server from starting, you need to remove your destkop manager from the daemons list.
If you are using GNOME then you're desktop manager is GDM. If you're using KDE you're desktop manager will be KDM. For this, I'm going to assume that you're using GNOME; ergo you are using GDM as your desktop manager.
In Raspian, the desktop manager is called LightDM.
To disable a daemon in Debian (which Raspbian is a fork of) you have to run the following command.
$ sudo update-rc.d <daemon> disable
So in order to disable LightDM we have to run the following command.
$ sudo update-rc.d lightdm disable
And now on your next reboot LightDM shouldn't start and will, in turn, not start X Server.
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7the exact command for the raspberry is:
sudo update-rc.d lightdm disable– mirkCommented Jan 17, 2013 at 17:41
Accepted answer didn't work for me in "Jessie" version, I ended up using:
sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
Reference: Trying to turn off X11 in Jessie
