Re: Newbie Q: Shutdown of GUI & all it's programs?
From: gipsy boy (x_at_x.pi)
Date: 12/22/04
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Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2004 16:36:26 GMT
Scruffy wrote:
> john@starfleet.os2.dhs.org wrote in
> news:slrncse7ua.bnt.john@vector.os2.dhs.org:
>
>
>>On 2004-12-20, Scruffy Eagle <this_cant@be.spammed> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>If you needed to do some maintenance on the OS setup, but had booted
>>>into XFree86/KDE, how would one shut the GUI stuff all down? For
>>>example, to re- install XFree86 - how would one do a quick shutdown
>>>of all GUI-related programs currently running?
>>
>>CTRL-ALT-[Backspace] will kill the current X server. If you're in a
>>runlevel (e.g. "5") that uses a display manager (xdm/gdm/kdm), the X
>>server will restart and spawn another display manager login widget.
>>
>>If you just want to drop down to a text console, use "telinit 3" to
>>change to runlevel 3, which is a text console.
>>
>
>
> Hi, John!
>
> Ctrl-Alt-Del won't do it; only triggers a suspend on my machine. I'll try
> the "telinit 3" command later tonight.
Backspace, not Del! The long horizontal one.
My bad, actually.
-- - gipsy boy
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