Restarting Xserver from cli

[Joep L. Blom]

Ray Parrish wrote:
> Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> David Curtis wrote:
>>
>>   
>>> To me, removing C-A-B to limit this issue, is a sound decision.  
>>>     
>> Not for people like me who have used Linux for many moons now, and when 
>> X locks up that is one of the first methods to regain some form of 
>> control...what's the alternative if you don't have another system to try 
>> SSH'ing into it and checking processes?
> Uh, CTRL-ALT-F1??? or F2, F3, etc... 8-) Although, since I'm still a 
> noob, when I do an F1 to the console, I usually wind up doing a sudo 
> reboot from there to continue, as I'm not really sure yet what to do 
> once I get there. I'm sure with a little more reading on my part, that 
> it's possible to query, and kill processes from the other tty to get it 
> running properly again, and then log back into it.
> 
> Later, Ray Parrish--
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Ray,
After CTRL+ALT+Fn(n=1-6) do CTRL-ALT-F7 and you're back in your X-session.
Joep