Re: restarting X w/o reboot

1996-12-05 Thread Richard . Dansereau
> > > Over the past couple of days I've been playing with my XF86Config file, > and having to reboot each time to see the results really sucks. I'm > positive there is a better way but a check to the xdm man page reveals > nothing. > > Can I just kill xdm and restart it w/o reboot? > > Is ther

Re: restarting X w/o reboot

1996-12-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
Hi, > Over the past couple of days I've been playing with my XF86Config file, > and having to reboot each time to see the results really sucks. I'm > positive there is a better way but a check to the xdm man page reveals > nothing. You can end the Server by pressing ctrl+alt+backspace. (if you a

restarting X w/o reboot

1996-12-05 Thread Gavin Koch
Chris R. Martin writes: > Can I just kill xdm and restart it w/o reboot? > > Is there a keystroke to restart xdm (and re-read the XF86Config file) ? Turn off xdm while doing this kind of tweeking, instead use startx to start the server. Once it's working the way you want, reinable xdm.

restarting X w/o reboot

1996-12-05 Thread Chris R. Martin
Over the past couple of days I've been playing with my XF86Config file, and having to reboot each time to see the results really sucks. I'm positive there is a better way but a check to the xdm man page reveals nothing. Can I just kill xdm and restart it w/o reboot? Is there a keystroke to rest

Re: restarting X w/o reboot

1996-12-05 Thread mike
On Thu, 5 Dec 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote: > > Over the past couple of days I've been playing with my XF86Config file, > and having to reboot each time to see the results really sucks. I'm > positive there is a better way but a check to the xdm man page reveals > nothing. > > Can I just kill xd