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I want to disable lightdm from autostart.
Currenty, I run service lightdm disable from terminal, then run startx.

update-rc.d doesnt help

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answered 2 Years ago inaterested · Accepted Answer

lightdm is started by Upstart, not SysV Init.
So update-rc.d doesn't work.

Use

 echo  "manual" | sudo tee -a /etc/init/lightdm.override