Jacob Todd wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 11:08:09PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> On Monday 06 July 2009 22:49:38 Alexander 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 >>> >> There's this thing that RedHat gave us called DontZap that gets in the way >> of >> that >> >> -- >> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com >> >> > > This isn't RedHat. > >
But it applies to Gentoo as well. From my xorg.conf.example on Gentoo. # Uncomment this to disable the <Crtl><Alt><BS> server abort sequence # This allows clients to receive this key event. # Option "DontZap" It's a valid option on every Linux I have ever played with. Dale :-) :-)
