[NBLUG/talk] The Debian Way

Bill Kendrick nbs at sonic.net
Fri Oct 28 17:51:39 PDT 2005


On Fri, Oct 28, 2005 at 05:35:02PM -0700, A'fish'ionado wrote:
> If you don't mind me jumping in here and asking, what's the easiest way to
> stop/start X under Debian? I figured it out at one point to install the
> nVidia drivers, but I don't even remember what I did anymore (I think
> something similar to "killall X" was involved).
> 
> (BTW, I just got Slackware working on my desktop for the first time. Once I
> finish tweaking the install maybe I'll report back with my experiences.)

I run a Display Manager, KDE's "KDM" to be specific, and on Debian
I start and stop it (and hence X-Window) with:

  /etc/init.d/kdm stop   (or start)  (or restart :) )

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-bill!
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