Re: X-window keys

[luisgh@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Luis Francisco Gonzalez)]

>    Dear Debianites:
> 
>    Let me clarify my previous post... (I just thought to go back and
> try it for accuracy---maybe next time I'll think to do so *before*
> posting :-).)
> 
> > why ctl-alt-bs might not kill X?
> 
>    Rather, ``why X comes right back after dying''?  After ctl-alt-bs,
> X does indeed appear to die---everything goes black, I see the virtual
> terminal from which I started xdm momentarily, then I'm back in X
> again.
> 
I think that the problem is that xdm re-launches the server when it is brought
down by ctrl-alt-bksp. It is xdm that is running the server. This means that X
is indeed being brought down only to be re-launched again.

AFAIK, to kill xdm you just need to run /etc/init.d/xdm stop as root. 

Hope this helps!
Luis.