Restarting X on Jaunty
James Kaufman
jmk at kaufman.eden-prairie.mn.us
Sat May 30 18:20:29 UTC 2009
Michael Satterwhite wrote:
> I know that the developers disabled ctrl-alt-backspace by default ...
> and I've reenabled it. Unfortunately, with the new version, that
> allows me to kill X, but I can't figure out how to restart it. In the
> older versions, ctrl-alt-backspace killed *AND* restarted it.
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> Thanks in advance.
> ---Michael
I've used 'telinit 3', followed by 'telinit 5' in the past to do this.
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