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On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Alexander<b3nder@××××××.ru> 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 X |
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>> 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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Except that it doesn't work at all when your X is as hosed as mine. |
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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD |
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