On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 1:49 PM, Alexander<b3n...@yandex.ru> wrote: > 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 >
Except that it doesn't work at all when your X is as hosed as mine. -- Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
