Restarting X after graphical login
I installed Woody 3.0 from official CDs and it gave me a graphical login
(gdm). I prefer it to the command line login, but it means that
configuration requiring restarting X presents problems. Often, a reboot
is the only sure way.
In another thread, Joshua Lee wrote:
No need to reboot, this is not windows.
Well, I can use <ctrl><alt><F1> to run a different terminal session,
login and start a new instance of X with 'startx -- :1'. There are some
problems here:
1. X run the KDE desktop (not Gnome). This is not really a problem, but
it is annoying.
2. Sometimes KDE fails to start and I am left with a black screen. When
I run out of patience, <ctrl><alt><del> seems to kick it into action.
3. I am not sure that the changes I am making are working correctly.
There may be unexpected behaviour (eg while stopping and starting font
servers, desktop menu fonts changed unexpectedly).
4. The original instance of X is still running <ctrl><alt><F7> and may
be unaffected by the changes until X is restarted. The only way to
restart is to reboot!
Is there a better way?
Chris.
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