How to restart X

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Erik Volkman wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 11:38:43AM -0400, jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net> said
>> 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.
>
> I suppose I should put this in the context that X has frozen, and the only
> access you have is by ssh'ing in. In addition it should put you back at the
> graphical-login prompt.
>
> ~Erik

i would imagine that one of:

   # killall X
   # killall -9 X

would work, followed by a "startx".

rday