Restarting Xserver from cli

[Ray Parrish]

Joep L. Blom wrote:
> 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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>> http://www.writingsoftheschizophrenic.com/
>>
>>
>>     
> Ray,
> After CTRL+ALT+Fn(n=1-6) do CTRL-ALT-F7 and you're back in your X-session.
> Joep
>   
Thanks! Can I actually query and kill hung processes from 7 while logged 
into 1?

Later, Ray Parrish

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