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List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: Shuting down KDE/X ?
From:       "Dwayne C . Litzenberger" <dlitz () cheerful ! com>
Date:       1999-11-30 3:22:37
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This has happened to me recently.  Assuming you're running a >= 2.2
kernel with the Magic SysRQ Keys enabled, you can just SysRq-k, and it
works, though I have no idea why.

SysRQ is Alt-PrintScreen on i386.

On Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 02:03:19AM +0000, David Paul Poulsen wrote:
> At 12:20 29-11-99 +0100, you wrote:
> > > I asked exactly this question a week or two ago and got no sensible
> > > answers.  As far as I can tell if you run KDE using KDM there isn't an
> > > easy/sensible way to close down just the X-server and leave the
> > > console that you ran it from.
> >
> >AFAIK it depends how you started KDE. If you started it from command
> >line ('startx'), you will be returned to command line. If you started it
> >by changing default runlevel in inittab (this may have been done
> >automatically for you, if you at installation time have chosen to start
> >X/KDE automatically), then you have to start xterm and (assuming you are
> >not root) do this:
> ># su - -c 'init 3'
> >
> >In case you are root, it will siffice to enter:
> ># init 3
> 
> I don't have KDE set up to start automatically, I start it by using 
> "startx" still all I get when loging out, trying Ctrl+Alt+BackSpace or 
> Ctrl+Alt+F1 is just a black screen and my monitors power light starts 
> blinking, which it does when there's no activity. I even tried what you 
> suggested as root, nothing happened what so ever...this is starting to bug 
> me :)
> 
> David
 
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