Sucess with dual monitors

Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.bell at gmail.com
Sun Jun 25 03:20:12 UTC 2006


On 6/24/06, Jean Hollis Weber <jean-ooo at taming-openoffice-org.com> wrote:
> Marius Gedminas wrote:
> >> Kill X and then start it again...
> >>
> >> sudo killall gdm
> >> sudo gdm
> >
> > Better use
> >
> >   sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
>
> Thanks. If I may ask, why is this a better way? As a total
> newbie, I'm learning a lot about how to do things from this list,
> and would like to try to understand the whys as well.

Using the init scripts to start and stop services (if you come from
the Windows world) is akin to using the Services control panel.
Simply killing it is like killing processes in Task Manager (it's
messy and for many applications will not kill everything you want
stopped).  The init script provides for cleanly shutting down the
entire subsystem, killing individual processes does not.

-- 
Chris

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