From: Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:17:48 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <58965d8a0907061417x3b59b2afs88cbd472e87e2cb8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9acccfe50907061233g2b1886e8l9f20606c43f0dce5@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 2:33 PM, Kevin O'Gorman<kogorman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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?
It depends on how you started X in the first place. If you did a
"startx" (or similar), logging out should be all you need to do to get
out of X. If you use a login manager, XDM/GDM/KDM then it'll restart
itself so you'll need to switch to a VT (ctrl-alt-F1) and then sudo
/etc/init.d/xdm stop to shut down XDM (and therefore X). You can then
rmmod your video drivers or do whatever changes you want to do. sudo
/etc/init.d/xdm start to bring it back up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-07-06 21:17 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
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 [this message]
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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