On Tuesday 07 July 2009, Dale wrote: > 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.
Right, but the latest flavor of xorg works without the requirement for a xorg.conf and therefore there's nowhere to define <Crtl><Alt><BS> in the .fdi files from what I recall. Retaining a xorg.conf would be the alternative - thus keeping the old Gentoo (and every other Linux) way. -- Regards, Mick
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