How to restart X

John Thompson JohnThompson at new.rr.com
Wed Jul 28 03:17:24 UTC 2004


Erik Volkman wrote:
> 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. 

# killall -HUP X


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-John (john at os2.dhs.org)





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