HOWTO: Forcefully Restart the X Server.
Every now and again you may be doing some configuration changes within your X config files that will require a restart of the X server. Rather than rebooting the entire machine, you can (in most cases, unless your sysadmin has disabled this option) swiftly restart your X server with the following, vaguely familiar, keystroke:
Control + Alt + Backspace
This will kill the X Server and restart it. As a user, you will be logged out and, once X has restarted, be put back at the login screen.
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4 opinions for HOWTO: Forcefully Restart the X Server.
Kyle
Jan 19, 2006 at 7:28 am
I was trying out Vector Linux recently. For reasons that were never clear to me, control-alt-backspace shut the machine off instantly.
Any guesses? I never bothered asking them. That would be too easy.
AMIT SALUNKE
Jan 21, 2006 at 1:39 am
TO install a LAN card in our linux system,
1st: its detect itself only at the time of intsllation.
2nd: we can mannually intall LAN card using
redhat-config-network.
is there anyother way to intall the LAN card and the above 2 ways are right to intall the lan card.
Thanking you
amit
AMIT SALUNKE
Jan 21, 2006 at 1:40 am
kindly explain me the how it works the pag aging (pageing) in linux systems.
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