On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 22:14 -0500, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > On Aug 2, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Dave Gutteridge wrote: > > Okay. One other question, though. Is there a way I can "reboot" X > > without rebooting the whole machine? It would make testing > > different settings so much less labourous if I didn't have to wait > > for a whole reboot. > > On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 23:03 -0400, Steve Huff wrote: > > hit control-alt-backspace to kill the X server. if you're in > > runlevel 5 (the X server starts automatically when your system boots > > up), it'll automatically restart, rereading its config files. > > You can also use "killall -1 gdm-binary" (assuming you're using GDM). or telinit 3&&telinit 5