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Jacob Todd wrote: |
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> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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>> On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote: |
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>>> On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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>>>> Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: |
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>>>>> I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able |
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>>>>> to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. |
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>>>>> What is the gentoo way to do that? |
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>>>> Gentoo or not, make your changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, logout from your |
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>>>> X session, change to a virtual console and restart the display manager |
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>>>> (/etc/init.d/xdm restart), which also restarts X as a side effect. |
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>>>> HTH... |
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>>>> Dirk |
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>>> It is simpler to use ALT+CTL+BKSPACE to restart the display manager |
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>> There's this thing that RedHat gave us called DontZap that gets in the way of |
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>> that |
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>> -- |
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>> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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> This isn't RedHat. |
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But it applies to Gentoo as well. From my xorg.conf.example on Gentoo. |
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# Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><BS> server abort sequence |
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# This allows clients to receive this key event. |
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# Option "DontZap" |
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It's a valid option on every Linux I have ever played with. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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