Restarting Xserver from cli

[Bart Silverstrim]

David Curtis wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 00:18:53 -0500
> "Cybe R. Wizard" <cybe_r_wizard at earthlink.net> wrote:
> 
>> Charlie Kravetz <cjk at teamcharliesangels.com>  said:
>>> From the release notes:
>>> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is now disabled, to reduce issues experienced by
>>> users who accidentally trigger the key combo. Users who do want this
>>> function can enable it in their xorg.conf, or via the command dontzap
>>> --disable. 
>>>
>>> and yes, we have lost the discussion about it. The decision was made
>>> and finished before anyone not at UDS and in the correct group knew
>>> about it.
>> Bending over too far backwards to accommodate Windows users, Ubuntu may
>> have shot itself in the foot with that one.  I might have to consider
>> going back to Debian unstable.
>> Sheesh, if I'd wanted windows I'd have stayed with Windows.
>>
>>
> 
> Oh fer crying out loud, as it says above, 'dontzap --disable' or edit your xorg.conf. What are you doing that you need to restart GDM/xorg so many times you need a short cut key? What's wrong with 'sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart'? 

When I had to use it...about two days ago...the screen was unreadable. 
I'd have to SSH into it from another system in order to get to a prompt 
to do the sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart...

And no, it wouldn't switch to another terminal.