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From: Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:00:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7D9F65CE-2F2A-4CC4-8154-E826B74A0959@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTineoO-pCd-euV4BqvnRmuqq-n5dBcV5yJUjLTrX@mail.gmail.com>


On 25 Aug 2010, at 04:36, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
> ... My problem has been that going to /etc/init.d
> and commanding "./xdm stop" seems to work, but has no effect on  
> KDE.  Manually killing kde (ps -ef | grep kde, etc) just starts  
> another one.  I finally figured out that I have to find the 'kdm'  
> process and kill that, then a logoff or Ctl_Alt_BS actually gets rid  
> of X, so I can do things like
> "X -configure" and so on.

If you run `/etc/init.d/xdm stop` and then log out of KDE using the  
logoff button in the Start Menu, what happens, please? Does xdm return?

Stroller.





  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-08-25 23:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-25  3:36 [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-25  3:55 ` [gentoo-user] " Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-25 14:22 ` [gentoo-user] " Bill Longman
2010-08-25 14:28   ` Mick
2010-08-25 19:37     ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-25 19:44       ` Alex Schuster
2010-08-26  1:53       ` Michael Orlitzky
2010-08-25 19:33   ` Kevin O'Gorman
2010-08-25 20:40     ` Robert Bridge
2010-08-26 15:34       ` Bill Longman
2010-08-25 23:00 ` Stroller [this message]
2010-08-26 19:07   ` Kevin O'Gorman

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