How to restart X

jludwig wralphie at comcast.net
Mon Jul 26 15:38:43 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 11:23, Erik Volkman wrote:
> I feel really silly asking how to do this, but I can't figure out the
> Redhat/Fedora way of doing this. In debian if I want to restart X from the
> console I can do a /etc/init.d/(x|k|g|w)dm restart. What's the equivalent in
> Redhat/Fedora? I'm not seeing anything in /etc/init.d or in service
> --status-all that appears to be what I want, and doing an init 3; init 5,
> seems like overkill.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> ~Erik
Actually there are a few ways
startx (startkde) (also see  man 1 startx)
telinit 5
CTL+ALT+BKSP (CTL+META+BKSP) from X
And a few others I don't remember.
-- 
jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>





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