Re: [gentoo-user] Feckless xdm not much of a manager

[Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>]

On 25 August 2010 15:22, Bill Longman <bill.longman@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 08/24/2010 08:36 PM, Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
>> In order to make progress on this thing, it's useful to be able to
>> control the display manager.  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.
>
> You ~should~ be able to log onto a console vty by using Ctrl-Alt-Fn
> (where n=1-6). You can then log on from there and commence all manner of
> Gentacular shelly goodness.
>
> There's really no need to kill the display manager ever. In fact, you
> can have more than one running at a time.
>
>> Oddly, "./xdm start" worked fine, and was responsible for kdm being
>> started.   But isn't it odd that the display "manager" has such weak
>> control on its "subordinate"?  Big PITA for me.
>
> Yeah, that's just a semantic problem, really. The generic term is "xdm"
> but depending upon your setup, you can plug in any display manager.

Running /etc/init.d/xdm stop should kill kdm too.  If it respawns,
then run /etc/init.d/xdm zap.
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Regards,
Mick