On 02/18/2011 06:18 PM, Geoffray Levasseur wrote: > On Friday 18 February 2011 06:53:53 Linus Östberg wrote: >> It is possible to reactivate the shortcut in xorg.conf. Otherwise, you >> can restart kdm by pressing alt-e when at kdm's login screen. >> >> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> In days long ago, it was possible to restart KDM with >>> ctrl+alt+backspace. That doesn't work anymore. Is there a way to >>> restart KDM without logging in as root and restart the service? >>> > For me, the cleaner way is to restart it using the init script of your distro. > If you kill the X server (or if you log out) a new KDM instance is launched > using a parent KDM, so, in case of KDM update you can have a parent process > with a different version than the child one... The parent process is like a > deamon that start again the child process each time it's terminated or killed > (and so the X server at the same time if needed). > > To restart the deamon (so the parent process): > * on Debian and *Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/kdm restart > * on OpenSuse and Gentoo: /etc/init.d/xdm restart > > Don't know for other distro. > > Hope I'm clear enough and I've done no mistake ;) Yes, I know. See the "without logging in as root and restart the service" part in the OP ;-) ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.