Joshua Lee wrote:
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 11:34:52AM +0000, 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.Does control-alt-backspace to kill X not eventually work? (It usually takes me two times here.)
It returns me to the graphical login screen. Not sure if this is really a retstart of X. But:
"Gerald Livingston" <debuser@sysmatrix.net> Sat, 9 Nov 2002 07:44:20 -0600 wrote
Personally, I usually drop to console then issue an '/etc/init.d/gdm stop' then do any apt-get install/upgrades or config changes -- then issue an '/etc/init.d/gdm start'.
This seems like the solution I am looking for. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions.
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