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From: Jacob Todd <jaketodd422@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:56:31
Message-Id: 20090706185458.GA11301@zoidberg.hsd1.mi.comcast.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X by Alan McKinnon
1 On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
2 > On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote:
3 > > On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
4 > > > Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman:
5 > > > > I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able
6 > > > > to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again.
7 > > > >
8 > > > > What is the gentoo way to do that?
9 > > >
10 > > > Gentoo or not, make your changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, logout from your
11 > > > X session, change to a virtual console and restart the display manager
12 > > > (/etc/init.d/xdm restart), which also restarts X as a side effect.
13 > > >
14 > > > HTH...
15 > > >
16 > > > Dirk
17 > >
18 > > It is simpler to use ALT+CTL+BKSPACE to restart the display manager
19 >
20 > There's this thing that RedHat gave us called DontZap that gets in the way of
21 > that
22 >
23 > --
24 > alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
25 >
26
27 This isn't RedHat.
28
29 --
30 Jake Todd
31 // If it isn't broke, tweak it!

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Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>