> Dear Debianites: > > Let me clarify my previous post... (I just thought to go back and > try it for accuracy---maybe next time I'll think to do so *before* > posting :-).) > > > why ctl-alt-bs might not kill X? > > Rather, ``why X comes right back after dying''? After ctl-alt-bs, > X does indeed appear to die---everything goes black, I see the virtual > terminal from which I started xdm momentarily, then I'm back in X > again. > I think that the problem is that xdm re-launches the server when it is brought down by ctrl-alt-bksp. It is xdm that is running the server. This means that X is indeed being brought down only to be re-launched again.
AFAIK, to kill xdm you just need to run /etc/init.d/xdm stop as root. Hope this helps! Luis.
