Restarting X after graphical login

[Chris Lale]

I installed Woody 3.0 from official CDs and it gave me a graphical login (gdm). I prefer it to the command line login, but it means that configuration requiring restarting X presents problems. Often, a reboot is the only sure way.

In another thread, Joshua Lee wrote:

No need to reboot, this is not windows.

Well, I can use <ctrl><alt><F1> to run a different terminal session, login and start a new instance of X with 'startx -- :1'. There are some problems here:

1. X run the KDE desktop (not Gnome). This is not really a problem, but it is annoying.
2. Sometimes KDE fails to start and I am left with a black screen. When I run out of patience, <ctrl><alt><del> seems to kick it into action.
3. I am not sure that the changes I am making are working correctly. There may be unexpected behaviour (eg while stopping and starting font servers, desktop menu fonts changed unexpectedly).
4. The original instance of X is still running <ctrl><alt><F7> and may be unaffected by the changes until X is restarted. The only way to restart is to reboot!

Is there a better way?

Chris.

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