From: Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Preston> "CTRL+ALT+Backspace" will kill the X-server.
Indeed it does, with no questions asked.
A question I asked before, for for which I never received an answer: Is this a "dirty" shutdown of X and so to be avoided, or is it a proper shutdown, whatever that means?
Dirty. If a process has a file open, that file might get corrupted, or a temp file might not get erased, etc. If you don't have any apps running other than your window manager/desktop environment, usually nothing will get hurt.
For a clean shutdown:
Log out of X; then if a login manager (xdm, gdm, wdm, kdm) is still running, you can stop it by switching to a console (Ctrl-Alft-F1 should work in most cases) and then as root run "/etc/init.d/[xgwk]dm stop" (use the letter that corresponds to the login manager that you're running.
-- Kent West ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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