Restarting Xserver from cli

Knapp magick.crow at gmail.com
Wed Mar 18 22:00:52 UTC 2009


On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Mario Vukelic
<mario.vukelic at dantian.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 22:07 +0100, Nigel Henry wrote:
>> I'm using Linux because (using many different distro's) I have
>> complete control over the machine, yet on Ubuntu that complete control
>> is being taken away
>
> As has been pointed out repeatedly, it can be enabled with 1 or 2
> commands. It was never case that anything and everything that is
> possible was also enabled. It's always been about trade-offs.
>
> Also, may I point out gently that Ubuntu never made it a secret that
> their system should be usable by what you so nicely call "idiots" (which
> includes, for example, my wife. thanks). Cf. bug #1,
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
>
> There are other linux distros to choose from, which is kind of the
> point.

If C.A.D. can have a pop up then why can't C.A.B????? This would seem
to end all the discussion. Also if X is not working then you don't see
the pop up but the code should be able to tell if X is dead or not.
Perhaps hitting it 2 times would force it when all is dead?

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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