On Thursday 24 October 2002 12:02, Joe wrote:
On Thursday 24 October 2002 10.58, Frank Yonatan Baule wrote:
Okay, now you get to know that Linux is quiet new to me, but how do you restart X? I mean, I always thought that X is almost at the bottom of the system and to restart X does mean to reboot the machine. Am I wrong?
Restarting X doesn't require a reboot. Think of it more as a program that's running on top of the OS, not as the OS itself.
From KDE, pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is a quick way to restart X. Don't use except out of necessity, and try and make sure all your files are saved before doing so. That Ctrl-Alt-Backspace thing will also work from KDM (login screen) as well, though I think X restarts now with a normal logout.
Joe's solution will work, of course but also the kdm logon window (which you'll see when logging out of KDE) has a dropdown menu (cunningly labelled menu). One item on it is 'Restart X-server'.
Joe
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