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Old 02-22-2003, 12:26 AM   #1
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ending x session


how can i end my x session. startx starts the x session but how do i end it.

thanks for any advise,
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Old 02-22-2003, 12:32 AM   #2
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you mean pull down the GUI of what ever distro of linux your using? try ctrl+alt +backspace I'm sure that will work.

And no problem for handing out advice, I learned that yesterday :] gotta pass it down some how
 
Old 02-22-2003, 12:35 AM   #3
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that just logs me out of my windows manager kde, gnome. i want to ge back to the prompt where i log into my xsession.

thanks though,
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Old 02-22-2003, 12:40 AM   #4
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Well it depends on how you got into your distro sets up it's runlevels I guess. If you are booting into a gui login, then CTRL ALT BACKSPACE will just restart your X server, and put you back into your gui login screen. If you are booting into a login prompt, CTRL ALT BACKSPACE should kill your X server and put you back at a command prompt.

However, you can also go back to the tty that you startx from (maybe tty1 so CTRL ALT F1) and then kill X with a CTRL C. This will kill whatever process is running on that tty and then you can startx again.

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Old 02-22-2003, 12:44 AM   #5
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Thanks for clearing that up MasterC ;] I learned more new things now
 
Old 02-22-2003, 12:48 AM   #6
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You're welcome One more thing that I didn't really make clear..

You can also switch runlevels without restarting the computer. Look into /etc/inittab and note the runlevels. You can safely switch to the non-gui multi-user runlevel (usually init 3) by just (as root):
init 3

This might help when trying to CTRL ALT BACKSPACE to kill X since it's depending on which runlevel you are in.



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Old 02-22-2003, 01:02 AM   #7
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thanks to the master, masterc
by the way nice website.
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Old 02-22-2003, 01:05 AM   #8
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You're Welcome I'm no Master though, just stuck around long enough to learn a few things

And thanks for the comment on the website!

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