Restarting Xserver from cli

[Derek Broughton]

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.

Well, if you were just trying to accomplish ctrl-alt-backspace, you'd
do "sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart" (or kdm or xdm).  But the reason it has
so many people upset is that you mostly use ctrl-alt-bs when you can't get
enough response from the system to login to a console.  There was a time,
around the early KDE 2.0 days that I would have really missed it.  It's a
long time since my desktop was ever that unresponsive.
-- 
derek