** Reply to message from Daevid Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Wed, 04 Dec 2002 20:08:28 -0800
> Sooooo, um, how do I shut down X-windows in RedHat 8.0 (for that session > only). > > Here's the thing, if I logout, I'm prompted to login again right. There > is no option to exit X all together, only reboot and shutdown. > > If I CTRL+SHIFT+BACKSPACE (I think that's it) to kill X (which normally > works), it just restarts again. WTF!? Ugh. Ugh is right. What I would try from a terminal window is (as root): telinit 3 which should change you to runlevel 3 which is multiuser but no X. Then to boot into X, you just issue (as non-root this time): startx If you prefer this procedure rather than the graphical login manager, you can change the default bootup runlevel to 3 by editing the first line in the file /etc/inittab as follows (as root again): id:3:initdefault: > It seems that RH8.0 has a memory leak in Gnome, and I was thinking that > if I shut it down, it would free that up and then I could restart it > (that is until the leak is fixed in a future version). As it stands, my > machine just keeps getting slower and slower until I have to reboot. > Weak sauce. I find this hard to believe since I am a RH8 Gnome user who has no complaints. Best to monitor using top or System Monitor for a while and see if there are any rogue apps hogging everything. What video card do you have? jb -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
