Re: Questions from a new debian user

[Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@shiba.ucsd.edu>]

Hi!

To shut down X temporarily, you can do the following:

* Switch to a virtual console (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and log in as root.

* Execute the command '/etc/init.d/xdm stop' or '/etc/init.d/kdm stop'.

* Now, do whatever (you can even test X using 'startx' from a virtual
console).

* When you're ready to run xdm or kdm again, execute '/etc/init.d/xdm
start' as root.

Thanks. Syrus.

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Syrus Nemat-Nasser <syrus@ucsd.edu>    UCSD Physics Dept.