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 1MNx8h-0007SF-DI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 22:58:23 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9051AE059E; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:58:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f191.google.com (mail-yx0-f191.google.com [209.85.210.191]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 734E0E059E for ; Mon, 6 Jul 2009 22:58:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxe29 with SMTP id 29so6235339yxe.32 for ; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:58:22 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=iaPaDfEtRm2Fskn7XfK2F3OpHI1MTtHwGCuvenc1FGc=; b=M1HuDOb9t13DuQQ0DZHKyP4I9zewJwQv6MTVcvGemFhurKIHQweh4DTZzsPtdJfS+i Rn0aqkE2QiTsZorVueUA27hB/ZaC/qZgcvLy2+XvL38zIJUeqeQmd7Gr0/sGYqz/ZERI XbDL0QA9lXnmLYGHlO9peVbnQRC2NSufdhkes= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IWTkd9egez+ORWMVva8JWWL4zSzvHSjk6fEwi2aDcf6qpMNfSIk5nv/f7jY5oPJR/v 2NYpaiWgSC3Kn/YoOwcpqhusXIomunaVSWaAljXen5OWWsKlD9GpFcTDYpbHFvDU3OYm QLEK15av+E4pz+21UD/obH9pjOoG5qrdeI6sA= 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 Received: by 10.90.89.8 with SMTP id m8mr4596171agb.23.1246921101792; Mon, 06 Jul 2009 15:58:21 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200907070049.38550.b3nder@yandex.ru> References: <9acccfe50907061233g2b1886e8l9f20606c43f0dce5@mail.gmail.com> <200907062142.50996.dirk.heinrichs@online.de> <200907070049.38550.b3nder@yandex.ru> Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 15:58:21 -0700 Message-ID: <9acccfe50907061558l10a3967bx47a2b8dd105517d8@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to stop X From: "Kevin O'Gorman" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: 92d04a5f-ef74-420f-ae27-a547dcc27638 X-Archives-Hash: d445fcf4b2694f710ad6a4287659384e On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM, 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... >> >> =A0 =A0 =A0 Dirk >> > > It is simpler to use ALT+CTL+BKSPACE to restart the display manager > Except that it doesn't work at all when your X is as hosed as mine. --=20 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD