Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X

[Dale]

Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Dale wrote:
>
>> Jacob Todd wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be
>>>>>>> able to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> What is the gentoo way to do that?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gentoo or not, make your changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, logout from
>>>>>> your X session, change to a virtual console and restart the display
>>>>>> manager (/etc/init.d/xdm restart), which also restarts X as a side
>>>>>> effect.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> HTH...
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 	Dirk
>>>>>>
>>>>> It is simpler to use ALT+CTL+BKSPACE to restart the display manager
>>>>>
>>>> There's this thing that RedHat gave us called DontZap that gets in the
>>>> way of that
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
>>>>
>>> This isn't RedHat.
>>>
>> But it applies to Gentoo as well.  From my xorg.conf.example on Gentoo.
>>
>
> Right, but the latest flavor of xorg works without the requirement for a
> xorg.conf and therefore there's nowhere to define <Crtl><Alt><BS> in the .fdi
> files from what I recall.  Retaining a xorg.conf would be the alternative -
> thus keeping the old Gentoo (and every other Linux) way.
>

True, but how many people have actually did the upgrade?  I haven't yet. 

Also, you can have a xorg.conf still to specify the option.  That may be
the only thing in the file but it would still work.

Dale

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