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Re: Restarting X after graphical login



On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 00:34, Chris Lale wrote: 
> 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.
... 

> 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?

You could try 

/etc/init.d/gdm restart

Richard




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