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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] stop and start x-server from console
From:       Ken Schneider - openSUSE <suse-list3 () bout-tyme ! net>
Date:       2013-12-22 23:56:14
Message-ID: 52B77C1E.1050000 () bout-tyme ! net
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On 12/22/2013 06:42 PM, Carlos E. R. pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On 2013-12-23 00:22, Istvan Gabor wrote:
>> "Carlos E. R." <> írta:
>
>
>> Apart from the above there should be some solution to restart x server.
>> Maybe by killing and starting the x-server directly.
>> Is it possible? Which process should be killed/started?
>
>
> The sequence "init 3 ; init 5" has been working since before SuSE 5.2 to
> openSUSE 13.1. I see no reason why it would not work on openSUSE 12.2.
> If this would not work on 12.2, people would know it and be mad
> complaining about it. I tested 12.2 for a brief time when it was
> released and I'm certain it worked (99%). What, I have no idea.
>
> You must have done something to break it.
>
> I know no other way to properly restart the graphical server.
>
> You can try ctrl-alt-backspace, twice. It is forced, fast kill.
>

I had 12.2 installed before I installed 13.1 and I can confirm that 
using init 3 & init 5 DID work. Apparently Istvan has a major problem 
somewhere.

-- 
Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998

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