Restarting X (was: Monitor vertical refresh rate setting in X.)

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 12:07:37 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:

> On Mi, 24 nov 10, 10:24:30, Simon Hollenbach wrote:
>> 
>> > After that, restart the X server (I never remember how does one
>> > restarts X server in Debian, but jumping to tty, falling into "init
>> > 1" and then running "startx" should do the trick)... or reboot O:-)
>> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace

Thanks. 

I was using that combo in my years with openSUSE. Then, they changed to 
"Ctrl+Alt+Backspace+Backspace" (two "backspace") and now in Debian I'm a 
bit lost with this.

> Depending on this setting:
> 
> ,----[ /etc/default/keyboard ]
> | XKBOPTIONS="terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp" 
> `----

So... there must be an "agnostic way" that works in almost any setup/
configuration to tell the user to restart X (besides restarting :-P).

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón