From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MNvRh-0002ux-KG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:09:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8A4AFE05DF; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f207.google.com (mail-ew0-f207.google.com [209.85.219.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49A7BE05DF for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 21:09:52 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ew0-f207.google.com with SMTP id 3so15158ewy.34 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:09:52 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=gkWgJo22ny7uEWe+bv6O+dR/EqnnRq7th3kVbiOKjOw=; b=SobANsMVThaA/BHkWzrLjJXA2m1gbhUqyy3fF3BmbFoK2rToVF1syVUS2SQw1V5aOP aXSPMVe6mQWaUxBwOBY9cixSz6z5bFE/RW0XkK4F6GsJ+NJ83wgPQ2/05eWyo7QY9Tt2 hkEsChl4j6Qpa9TadrApzEnCEh4wUzYnWSnqE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :message-id; b=Fd+TbrV+e0im6IGKliKGjipbQLAXIEyQy1fQZ2REYChQsf5u7wTZhElEqA93iPvMa8 030mADpf6PjKt7C+hR6p8ot6jxB+xvKB4EIZBHoEBPdn37MfBtg6HT83iHrVA4PyRhDy GDqHXcdEmom5cWuB3n//eLSUEfXv1LTEVpJ7o= Received: by 10.210.16.11 with SMTP id 11mr4027672ebp.37.1246914592092; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:09:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet ([196.210.202.145]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 10sm1097845eyz.11.2009.07.06.14.09.50 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 06 Jul 2009 14:09:51 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 23:08:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.11.4 (Linux/2.6.30-gentoo-r2; KDE/4.2.4; x86_64; ; ) References: <9acccfe50907061233g2b1886e8l9f20606c43f0dce5@mail.gmail.com> <200907062142.50996.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <200907070049.38550.b3nder@yandex.ru> In-Reply-To: <200907070049.38550.b3nder@yandex.ru> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200907062308.09753.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 3db67978-9724-447a-97f1-27e5073a49a3 X-Archives-Hash: 3eed633116b7c34c96b68e752048ad4d On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander wrote: > On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > > 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 > > It is simpler to use ALT+CTL+BKSPACE to restart the display manager There's this thing that RedHat gave us called DontZap that gets in the way of that -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com