gnome / xserver restart

Chris Jones cmsj at tenshu.net
Sun Dec 5 17:37:38 CST 2004


Hi

On Sun, December 5, 2004 19:31, gilligan said:
> try out some things. An Option to restart X would have been nice.
> Instead i had to kill X each time and I was presented by some info
> dialog "Seems like X does not work etc.." When chosing to get the error

IMHO an extra option to just restart X isn't worth it, you can hit
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace without getting any errors, or run:

/etc/init.d/gdm restart

to completely tear down X and gdm.

> output of X only first couple of lines from /var/log/XFree86.0.log were
> printed, which is pretty worthless..

That certainly could be improved :)

Cheers,
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Chris Jones
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