How do I restart X without rebooting?

Seventh · 02-23-2006, 12:16 PM

Greetings,

I'm currently trying to setup a display on an older laptop, and I'm not sure how to restart only the X server when I want to try resolution changes.

What's the proper way to just restart the X server, without rebooting the machine?

Thanks much!

pljvaldez · 02-23-2006, 12:17 PM

CTRL-ALT-Backspace

bulliver · 02-23-2006, 01:18 PM

Also note that you can put multiple resolutions in your xorg.conf file ie:

Code:

    Subsection "Display"
        Depth       24
        Modes       "1280x1024" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
        ViewPort    0 0
    EndSubsection

and you can cycle through them without restarting X with [CTRL]-[ALT]-[+] and [CTRL]-[ALT]-[-].