restarting X

[David Coldrick]

Well, it would seem I'd have to wait for a long time: however, if I
login and do startx, as you suggest, then everything works ok.

It's just a bit clumsy - dunno why it stalls at the login.

Regards,
David


On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:40:12 +1000, Daniel Saunders
<daniel.saunders at gmail.com> wrote:
> > What is the right way to restart x, etc. or how to I configure this?
> 
> Normally you have to wait a few seconds for the restart to occur, and
> during this time you will see the login prompt.  I'm not sure, but I
> would assume it's a feature of the GDM daemon.
> 
> If that doesn't happen you could login and run 'startx' at the prompt.
>  But when you logout from your Gnome session I think you'd go back to
> a command prompt and not the GDM login screen.
> 
> Daniel
> 
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