[K12OSN] How to restart gdm without rebooting?

[Doug Simpson]

Not sure if this is a correct answer or not, but you can log into the 
server as root and do init 3 and wait for the prompt to return and then 
type init 5 and wait again.  You may have to press ENTER a time or two to 
get the prompt back but that will restart X.  Works for me, anyway. . .

Doug Simpson
Technology Specialist
DeQueen Public Schools
DeQueen, AR 71832
simpsond at leopards.k12.ar.us
Tux for President!

On Tue, 24 Aug 2004, Petre Scheie wrote:

> Nope, no xdm or gdm or kdm in /etc/init.d.  I also looked in /etc/rc5.d, 
> since it presumably would be loaded when the system goes to runlevel 5; 
> but I don't see anything there, either.  I also tried grepping for gdm 
> in all the files in /etc/init.d, but got nothing.  Anyone have any other 
> ideas?
> 
> Petre
> 
> Quentin Hartman wrote:
> 
> >GDM should be running as a boot-time service, so use the appropriate
> >mechanism to restart it like any other service. I think that would be
> >"service gdm restart" on K12LTSP. I am not in front of a Fedora-based
> >box at the moment to double check. On many distros you could also do
> >something like "/etc/init.d/xdm restart" to do it. Often, the display
> >manager service is generically called "xdm", even if one is actually
> >using KDM or GDM or what have you.
> >
> >On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 06:46, Petre Scheie wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>All-
> >>What's the best way to restart/reload gdm without rebooting?  I've 
> >>changed the default desktop to IceWM, by editing gdm.conf.  So, I need 
> >>to restart gdm but don't want to do a reboot as that would disrupt 
> >>people who are already logged in.
> >>
> >>Petre
> >>
> >>
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