[lug] Getting X started - or, more properly, stopped

[John Starkey]

Thus spake Kenneth D. Weinert (kenweinert at home.com):

> That much I know - what I can't sort out is how to get logged in while it's 
> doing it's spawn-spamming thing.

What I was aiming at was getting into runlevel 3 at boot and starting X from there until you have what you want. Then switching back once you're certain it's safe. I haven't found a way to kill X when it's "spawn-spamming" at boot, so I normally do it that way.