Re: Where did gdm-{restart,stop} go?

[Kevin Fenzi]

On Mon, 2 May 2011 09:24:59 -0500
Richard Shaw  wrote:
> Ok, on my MythTV box I would occasionally get freezes where
> Ctl-Alt-Backspace would not work, or I'd get a call from the wife and
> need to restart X remotely from work.
>
> On Fedora 10 I found a handy command, gdm-restart which worked quite
> nicely. After upgrading to F12 it was gone, then I found gdm-stop
> which seemed to do the same thing. Now that I'm on F14, neither
> command is available and I haven't found a suitable replacement.

'stop prefdm'

and

'start prefdm'

should do it.

Note that in F15 this will change again to:

'systemctl restart prefdm'

kevin