X Windows (Was: [Q] Debain 3.0 Startup....)

[Rasjid Wilcox]

On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 10:00 pm, Matthew Hawkins wrote:
> Rasjid Wilcox (rasjidw at openminddev.net) wrote:
> > Now restart the Xserver.  (I always either change the runlevel to 3 and
> > then back to 5, or use the GUI for this, so I'm not sure the best way of
> > doing this on debian.  Rebooting will do it.  ;-)  Can someone let me
> > know?  Is a killall the best way?
>
> There's a number of ways:
>
>   *  Ctrl-Alt-Backspace will kill the running X server, and xdm will
>      start a new one in its place
>   *  "/etc/init.d/xdm restart" will stop and start xdm itself, and hence
>      give you a new X server
>   *  ps -eo pid,comm | grep xdm | awk '{ print $1 }' | xargs kill -HUP
>      will send the hangup signal to all runnning xdm processes, causing
>      them to restart.

Thanks for that.

> This is true for most systems running XFree86, on some you'll have to
> adjust the path to the sysvinit script, on some 'ps' will call the
> 'comm(and)' option 'cmnd' or other names, and on some the X server
> keystrokes such as Ctrl-Alt-Backspace (and Ctrl-Alt-KP_Plus,
> Ctrl-Alt-KP_Minus, etc) are disabled in the config.

I assume that linux systems consistent re the 'ps' options, and that the 
variations are for BSD / Solaris etc??

Rasjid.