Restart Xorg from a console

Avi Greenbury lists at avi.co
Thu Nov 3 08:55:15 UTC 2011


Sam Przyswa wrote:

> Sometime my display freeze on Ubuntu 10.04, I use a USB cordless
> mouse & keyboard and I have to reboot the machine from an other
> network machine. But I would just restart Xorg from a SSH console,
> what is the right command ?

/etc/init.d/gdm restart

It'd be worth looking into why it's freezing, too :)

-- 
Avi




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