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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Stuck in XDM
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 10:06:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704291006.57099.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4633C5A1.10708@exceedtech.net>

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On Saturday 28 April 2007 23:07, Dale wrote:
> Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> > Never mind.  I had it configured right, but my attempts to kill off
> > XDM had failed.  I eventually got it right by rebooting the whole
> > system.  And reasonable menus for rebooting Just Came Up.
> >

> I was wondering because I have mine set up the same way.  If you want to
> reset X the easy way, usually a ctrl alt backspace will work.  Naturally
> the ctrl alt del button should do a reboot.

Ctrl+Αlt+Backspace kills X which then respawns.  To kill xdm you could press 
Ctr+Alt+F1 to get into the console, login as root and run:

/etc/init.d/xdm stop and, or zap.  That avoids the need for a reboot.

If I remember correctly Ctrl+Alt+Del does not work from an xdm login screen.  
Ctr+Alt+F1 drops you into vc1, where it works fine.
-- 
Regards,
Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-04-29  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-04-28 21:29 [gentoo-user] Stuck in XDM Kevin O'Gorman
2007-04-28 21:49 ` [gentoo-user] " Kevin O'Gorman
2007-04-28 22:07   ` Dale
2007-04-29  9:06     ` Mick [this message]
2007-04-29 17:19       ` Kevin O'Gorman
2007-04-29 17:59         ` Mick
2007-04-29 19:17           ` Neil Bothwick
2007-04-29 19:44             ` Dale

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