Restarting X on Jaunty

Steven Susbauer steven at too1337.com
Sat May 30 19:54:28 UTC 2009


Brian McKee wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 09:40 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> 
>> Assume for a moment I'm not logged in and I use ctrl-alt-backspace to
>> kill X. What do I do to restart it? Keying in startx doesn't do
>> anything.
> 
> sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart (or just start I suppose)
> 
> Brian
> 

Generally if gdm were running, X would restart after a short delay when
you kill it with Ctrl Alt Backspace.

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