Can you be sure that X is the cause of the slowdown? If you are not at the computer and something is bogging it down then maybe it's the screensaver you are running or some other process related to your session.
-Steve -----Original Message----- From: Richard S. Crawford [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 28, 2003 12:07 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: How to shut down X without shutting down the computer? Forgive an amateur... When I'm at home, I work exclusively on my RH8.0 box, and I like to have X running so I can run applications like Evolution, Mozilla, and so on. When I'm on the road (which I am far too often for my job), I use a Windows XP laptop, and I log into my desktop computer remotely with SSH, and use Squirrelmail to check my personal e-mail. As I understand it, I certainly don't need X running to make IMAP, Apache, SSHD, or any of the other remote programs I run work. But X can be a major resource hog, and slows things down when I'm logging in remotely. Is there an easy and painless way I can shut down X before I leave on business trips, and start it back up again when I'm at home, without having to reboot the machine? I'm using GNOME 2.0 as my windowing environment, if that's important. I imagine for those odd times when I need an X application while on the road, I can log in to my computer from Cygwin and start X remotely. -- Slainte, Richard S. Crawford AIM: Buffalo2K / Y!: rscrawford / ICQ: 11640404 http://www.mossroot.com http://www.stonegoose.com "It is only with our heart that we can see clearly. What is essential is invisible to the eye." --Antoine de Saint Exupery -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
