Restarting Xserver from cli

[Derek Broughton]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 16:23 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> How does one restart the Xserver from the cli? Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is
>> being disabled in Jaunty and if I have to fix a machine that is not
>> configured to enable it, I need to know what to do. I have googled and
>> found how to do this in Redhat-based systems, but not in Debian based
>> systems.
> 
> Restarting gdm will do the trick, but I am not sure it is the preferred
> method.
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart

I'm sure it is (as long as you are using gdm).  It may alteratively be kdm
or xdm.

But what's with "is being disabled in Jaunty"?  What an odd concept.
-- 
derek