Re: How to restart the X server under Debian?
- From: Digby Tarvin <digbyt@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:54:38 +0100
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 04:26:01PM -0500, Ryan Nowakowski wrote:
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 11:16:46PM +0200, Colin Finck wrote:
I need to restart the X server (XFree86 4.3.0) under Debian Sarge with a
script or program.
On other Linux systems, I now that I can use "init 3" to terminate the X
server and then use "startx" to start it again, but on my Debian system this
does not work.
Debian doesn't use runlevels to detemine when to run X. X is run by
using startx[1] or a graphical login manager (xdm,kdm,gdm).
The systems with use runlevels to start and stop X also use
a display manager (xdm/kdm/gdm) to do it, and usuallt have
start X available for manual starts.
What is different in Debian is that if a display manager is installed
it (and hence X) will be started in all multi-user runlevels.
Other distributions traditionally start the display manager in runlevel
5 but not 3, allowing a change of run level as a convenient way to
reconfigure the services running on a system.
And again, we are just talking defaults here. Debian can be made to
behave in the traditional way by updating the contents of the
/etc/rcR.d directory, and selecting the desired initial runlevel
in /etc/inittab (the default being 2):
# The default runlevel.
id:2:initdefault:
Regards,
DigbyT
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