Sucess with dual monitors

[Jean Hollis Weber]

Christofer C. Bell wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thank you for such a good plain English explanation!

--Jean