On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 08:13:08AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > But then it just springs back to life again, with a login prompt (at > least with xdm here). > > Let's pretend my monitor is being borrowed for a few days and being > replaced by a VT100, and I want to properly end all X processes and > revert to plain tty mode, without rebooting or editing any files. > You can stop xdm with "/etc/init.d/xdm stop" Cheers, Pasc