Where did gdm-{restart,stop} go?

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Mon May 2 14:57:44 UTC 2011


On Mon, 2 May 2011 09:24:59 -0500
Richard Shaw <hobbes1069 at gmail.com> 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
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