On 08/12/2014 11:08 AM, John Jason Jordan 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
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.
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
Ubuntu decided that ctrl-alt-delete should be used to kill the x-server.
which should also occur if you log out.
If logging out or ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work to clean up the problem,
probably it means its a kernel issue, some corruption in the display driver
If you want ctrl-alt-bksp back
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:58:44 -0700
Steve Dum dr.d...@frontier.com dijo:
If logging out or ctrl-alt-delete doesn't work to clean up the
problem, probably it means its a kernel issue, some corruption in the
display driver
My thinking exactly. But how to fix it eludes me.
If you want
On 08/12/2014 11:08 AM, John Jason Jordan 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.
Are you sure you just don't need to use Ctrl-Alt-F8 ?
dafr
On Tue, Aug 12, 2014 at 1:38 PM, John Jason Jordan joh...@comcast.net wrote:
On Tue, 12 Aug 2014 11:58:44 -0700
The reason I wanted to restart X is because logging out and back in
again, while it restarts X, ialso terminates all programs that I have
running at the moment.
Restarting X will
