Hylton, On Monday 20 September 2004 08:05, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote:
Hi,
Just out of curiosity I wonder if anyone can tell me what the command is to refresh the X server(KDE) under SuSE 9.0 ie to have the same effect as Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.
Does this command have to performed as by root as when doing it in the GUI there is no one logged on, in theory.
Tnx Brana, Randall and Stephen.
However i am confused with the method Brana and Randall gave me but I like the one Stephen gave.
After testing Stephens method it WORKS :)
Indeed. However, keep in mind that switching the system's run level has potentially much more wide-ranging effects than simply restarting the X server. While a typical SuSE install makes the "graphical desktop" operation the primary difference between run level 3 and 5, that's just a convention they've adopted and there can be other services associated with level 5 alone and they'll be stopped when switching to level 3. You can use the YaST "Runlevel Editor" module to view and change what services are associated with (enabled in) a given run level. "Expert mode" makes the level distinctions easy to see. I just checked on my system and the only service associated with run level 5 that is not also enabled in level 3 is in fact "xdm", the X Display Manager, which is the service that ultimately creates the graphical login environment. So if your system is similarly configured, you probably don't need to worry about unintended consequences of switching to level 3 to stop the X server.
Tnx -- Hylton Conacher
Randall Schulz