Re: X Windows

[Stephen Early <sde1000@chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 16 May 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:

> > /etc/init.d/xdm stop
> > 
> When I run the script it seems to run ok, produces no output, and returns
> the prompt. However, killing fvwm2 still produces a new login screen (even
> when you do it several times). 'ps a' still shows no xdm process.

I see - it only tries to stop xdm if it is set up to start it at boot
time. I'll change that in the next xbase, if I remember.

As a matter of interest, what does this do:
start-stop-daemon --stop --verbose --exec /usr/bin/X11/xdm

Steve Early
sde1000@cam.ac.uk