Can anyone explain the use of init3

[Craig McLean]

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Craig McLean wrote:
> Ian Malone wrote:
>>> On 19/04/06, Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> wrote:
> [snip]
>>>> You might want to go to runlevel 3 to change X drivers, which you
>>>> wouldn't want to do with X running.
>>>>
>>> Actually, I'd quite like to be able to do that with X running, although
>>> I suspect there's not much demand.
> 
> Actually I suspect that many people would like to be able to do this,
> but I also suspect that switching a running X instance to a new hardware
> driver on the fly is as close to impossible (given the current design of
> X) as makes no odds.
> There is, perhaps, slightly more mileage in the idea of maintaining
> window manager state across X restarts. That is, keeping the desktop the
> same while X restarts underneath it. Again this is (AFAIK) unimplemented
> rather than unfeasible.
> 
> Craig.

Wow, I come across like a pompous ass in that last paragraph. Sorry
about that.

Craig.
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