On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 11:08 AM, John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I am familiar with startx command, but I need the opposite. E.g., I use
> Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a console and, while in the console I want to
> restart X. I tried stopx and restartx, but both gave "command not
> found." Google told me to use /etc/init.d/gdm stop and then start to
> restart it, but that yielded "no such file or directory."

gdm is the gnome display manager. Aren't you using xfce? Do you have
/etc/init.d/lightdm?
try /etc/init.d/lightdm restart

Bill
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