On Monday 06 July 2009, Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Montag 06 Juli 2009 21:33:36 schrieb Kevin O'Gorman: > > > I'm having trouble configuring X, and to save time I'd like to be able > > to shut it down, edit some stuff, and start it up again. > > > > What is the gentoo way to do that? > > Gentoo or not, make your changes to /etc/X11/xorg.conf, logout from your X > session, change to a virtual console and restart the display manager > (/etc/init.d/xdm restart), which also restarts X as a side effect. > > HTH... > > Dirk >
It is simpler to use ALT+CTL+BKSPACE to restart the display manager
