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From: Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@online.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:42:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907062142.50996.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50907061233g2b1886e8l9f20606c43f0dce5@mail.gmail.com>

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Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman:

> I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able
> to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again.
>
> What is the gentoo way to do that?

Gentoo or not, make your changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, logout from your X 
session, change to a virtual console and restart the display manager 
(/etc/init.d/xdm restart), which also restarts X as a side effect.

HTH...

	Dirk

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-06 19:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-06 19:33 [gentoo-user] How to stop X Kevin O'Gorman
2009-07-06 19:42 ` Dirk Heinrichs [this message]
2009-07-06 20:49   ` Alexander
2009-07-06 21:08     ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-06 18:54       ` Jacob Todd
2009-07-06 23:23         ` Dale
2009-07-06 19:31           ` Jacob Todd
2009-07-06 23:38           ` Mick
2009-07-06 23:44             ` Dale
2009-07-06 22:58     ` Kevin O'Gorman
2009-07-06 21:17 ` Paul Hartman
2009-07-06 22:21   ` Kevin O'Gorman
2009-07-06 22:31     ` Paul Hartman
2009-07-06 22:41       ` Kevin O'Gorman
2009-07-06 23:30         ` Mick
2009-07-07  3:39           ` Kevin O'Gorman
2009-07-06 23:35         ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2009-07-06 23:35         ` [gentoo-user] " Stroller
2009-07-06 23:57     ` David Relson
2009-07-07  7:22       ` Dale
2009-07-07 11:26         ` David Relson
2009-07-07 14:20           ` Dale
2009-07-07  7:59     ` Neil Bothwick

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