On Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:35:00PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > On 17/06/10 01:22 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:53:49 +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > > > >> When I'm testing things with X I l want to be able to log via SSH and > >> restart X, how can I do that in a console? I'm using Gnome. > > > > "/etc/init.d/gdm restart"? :-? > > > Correct. This is what I always do, but with sudo (so, same thing): > $> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart > > Replace gdm with kdm or xdm or whatever display manager one is running. > > BTW, I wonder why the OP needs to SSH to his machine unless he is > already doing stuff remotely. On my machine if X messed up, I just > switch to a console (CTRL+ALT+F1 or F2 or F3 ..) and give the command > from there. maybe the the keyboard is frozen? I have this happen on occasion with gnome apps (my wife's machine, keep that stuff off my box please! ;-). A quick ssh and kill and it's all good. A
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