Mick wrote: > 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. >
True, but how many people have actually did the upgrade? I haven't yet. Also, you can have a xorg.conf still to specify the option. That may be the only thing in the file but it would still work. Dale :-) :-)
