[CentOS] Re: Conflict between mouse and tablet

Bryan J. Smith b.j.smith at ieee.org
Wed Aug 3 03:14:15 UTC 2005


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).


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