Re: restarting X w/o reboot
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote:
>
> Over the past couple of days I've been playing with my XF86Config file,
> and having to reboot each time to see the results really sucks. I'm
> positive there is a better way but a check to the xdm man page reveals
> nothing.
>
> Can I just kill xdm and restart it w/o reboot?
>
> Is there a keystroke to restart xdm (and re-read the XF86Config file) ?
ctrl-alt-backspace will kill the X server, xdm will then re-start
it.. or you could run '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' that would kill xdm and allow
you to start and stop the X server at will. One bit of advice, make sure
you have annother machine you can telnet with in case you frag your
console. If you don't have 2 machines with ethernet hook up a console the
the serial port.
zzzzzzz,
mike...
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