How to restart X

Erik Volkman eryanv at ks.uiuc.edu
Mon Jul 26 15:57:55 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:38:43AM -0400, jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net> said
> Actually there are a few ways
> startx (startkde) (also see  man 1 startx)
> telinit 5
> CTL+ALT+BKSP (CTL+META+BKSP) from X
> And a few others I don't remember.

I suppose I should put this in the context that X has frozen, and the only
access you have is by ssh'ing in. In addition it should put you back at the
graphical-login prompt. 

~Erik 





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