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 1N7t8n-0003OZ-0Q for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 24793E0B5E; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05DF8E0B69 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AA4967D90 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:18 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.599 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.599 required=5.5 tests=[BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id HcSfpNYWYXy3 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C75CA67BC3 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:00:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N7t8X-0006WF-3y for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:00:05 +0100 Received: from doki-pen.org ([74.207.224.154]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:00:05 +0100 Received: from doki_pen by doki-pen.org with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:00:05 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Doki Pen Subject: [gentoo-user] xdm doesn't restart on killed X Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:54:48 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org Keywords: xdm X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: doki-pen.org User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Linux) Sender: news 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 X-Archives-Salt: 6bbafbe1-4f89-4185-a0ae-41f08ca61f99 X-Archives-Hash: 1853276063c4fd642d701dec7ef0d226 I've recently switched from gdm to xdm in an effort to reduce my distro size. The only problem I've run into is that when I kill my X session, xdm doesn't restart automatically. I have to switch to a vtty and type exec sudo /etc/init.d/xdm restart. I've read the man pages and googled but can't come up with a solution. Does anyone know if there is a way to fix this issue?