On 08/12/2014 11:08 AM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > I am familiar with startx command, but I need the opposite. E.g., I use > Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to a console and, while in the console I want to > restart X. I tried stopx and restartx, but both gave "command not > found." Google told me to use /etc/init.d/gdm stop and then start to > restart it, but that yielded "no such file or directory." > > This is a System76 computer with nVidia GeForce GTX 765M and Haswell > core i7-4810MQ. When I installed Xubuntu I just let it install its > default driver, which is xserver-xorg-video-nouveau 1:1.0.10-1ubuntu2 > (the latest available in the repos). I have not installed bumblebee or > anything to take advantage of the advanced capabilities of the GTX > 765M and Haswell chip, nor have I ever tried the proprietary driver. > > ... > > I only wanted to try stopping and restarting X, although I suspect > it will make no difference, as the lines appear in the console as > well. > > Any other suggestions and observations welcome. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
On Ubuntu systems newer than 12.04 use the following: sudo service lightdm stop Rebooting resets everything. To start the server again: sudo service lightdm start _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
