[NBLUG/talk] The Debian Way

[E Frank Ball]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:51:39PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
} On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:35:02PM -0700, A'fish'ionado wrote:
} > If you don't mind me jumping in here and asking, what's the easiest way to
} > stop/start X under Debian? I figured it out at one point to install the
} > nVidia drivers, but I don't even remember what I did anymore (I think
} > something similar to "killall X" was involved).
} > 
} I run a Display Manager, KDE's "KDM" to be specific, and on Debian
} I start and stop it (and hence X-Window) with:
} 
}   /etc/init.d/kdm stop   (or start)  (or restart :) )

By default debian will use gdm, so it's:

/etc/init.d/gdm stop   (or start)  (or restart :) )

If you are really twisted you can use xdm.

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   E Frank Ball                frankb at frankb.us