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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:09:53
Message-Id: 200907062308.09753.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X by Alexander
1 On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote:
2 > On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
3 > > Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman:
4 > > > I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able
5 > > > to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again.
6 > > >
7 > > > What is the gentoo way to do that?
8 > >
9 > > Gentoo or not, make your changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, logout from your
10 > > X session, change to a virtual console and restart the display manager
11 > > (/etc/init.d/xdm restart), which also restarts X as a side effect.
12 > >
13 > > HTH...
14 > >
15 > > Dirk
16 >
17 > It is simpler to use ALT+CTL+BKSPACE to restart the display manager
18
19 There's this thing that RedHat gave us called DontZap that gets in the way of
20 that
21
22 --
23 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X Jacob Todd <jaketodd422@×××××.com>