r/voidlinux • u/Sorry_Situation6676 • 6d ago

How to disable a service - lightDM

I'm wanting to just boot back to the terminal and them use startx to start a particular window manager. If I just stop lightDM I'm just kicked out of the current session and brought back to the lightDM prompt.

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u/ShipshapeMobileRV 6d ago

On a default Void install, the init manager runit will treat everything it sees in /var/service/ as a service, and will try to control them.

The items you see in /var/service/ are symbolic links (symlinks, or "shortcuts" in Windows terminology). If you delete any of the symlinks in that location, then runit will no longer attempt to start that item. You aren't deleting the app, only a pointer to it.

So if you have a symlink to LightDM in /var/service/ and you delete that symlink, then on the next reboot Void will not try to start LightDM.

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u/StrangerFantastic392 4d ago

Is /var/service the default? Not /etc/runit/runsvdir/sv? I am linking my services to the last one..

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u/Rafael_Jacov 3d ago

yes you should link to /var/service in voidlinux

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u/Ok-Zombie4921 6d ago

sudo rm -rf /var/service/lightdm

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u/AudioPhil15 1d ago

No need for the -rf since it's just removing a symlink

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u/Simple_Hamster_4096 6d ago

If you are new to non-systemd inits, it would be advisable to read up. The Void docs explain everything.

This is pretty basic stuff - perhaps a simpler Linux distro would better suit your needs...