I just updated XFree86 in apt. I ran SuSEconfig. Now, I'm sure I need to restart x. How do I do this without rebooting? ( I think I asked this question before, but I can't find the answer in the archives.) Thanks, -=Thinker
Op vrijdag 26 september 2003 13:01, schreef Thinker:
I just updated XFree86 in apt. I ran SuSEconfig. Now, I'm sure I need to restart x. How do I do this without rebooting?
log out and in again. Are more rough: <ctrl><alt><backspace> -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
On Friday 26 September 2003 13:01, Thinker wrote:
I just updated XFree86 in apt. I ran SuSEconfig. Now, I'm sure I need to restart x. How do I do this without rebooting?
Simply log out and back in will restart X for you. But in order to be really certain you should drop to a text console with ctrl-alt-f1 after you've logged out, log in as root, run rcxdm restart, then back to the graphical login with ctrl-f7 and log back in
Anders Johansson wrote:
On Friday 26 September 2003 13:01, Thinker wrote:
I just updated XFree86 in apt. I ran SuSEconfig. Now, I'm sure I need to restart x. How do I do this without rebooting?
Simply log out and back in will restart X for you. But in order to be really certain you should drop to a text console with ctrl-alt-f1 after you've logged out, log in as root, run rcxdm restart, then back to the graphical login with ctrl-f7 and log back in
Anders, Is this the same thing as pressing ALT-e after logging out (once your at the graphical login screen)? Thanks, D.C.
On Friday 26 September 2003 16:01, Darrell Cormier wrote:
Anders, Is this the same thing as pressing ALT-e after logging out (once your at the graphical login screen)?
I'm not familiar with that shortcut (I don't restart all that often :), but if that's the hotkey for "restart X server" then yes
On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Thinker wrote:
I just updated XFree86 in apt. I ran SuSEconfig. Now, I'm sure I need to restart x. How do I do this without rebooting?
( I think I asked this question before, but I can't find the answer in the archives.)
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Thinker wrote:
I just updated XFree86 in apt. I ran SuSEconfig. Now, I'm sure I need to restart x. How do I do this without rebooting?
( I think I asked this question before, but I can't find the answer in the archives.)
Thanks,
-=Thinker
You can do the brute force method. As Richard mentioned ctl+alt+bkspc--no finesse but effective. Or from a root terminal "/etc/init.d/xdm restart". Or you can reinitialize the whole runlevel which is the next best thing to restarting "telinit 1" then "telinit 5". This is usually overkill but I've used it to solve problems when I have trouble getting things to reinitialize. Of course you don't want to do that if you have network connections that you want to keep open. John S.
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