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Offline jur

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Opposite command to startx?
« on: June 18, 2010, 01:46:29 AM »
Is there a command to stop X? Such as exittc seems to be doing when selecting exit to prompt?

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Re: Opposite command to startx?
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2010, 01:50:06 AM »
How about the rather "brutal" killall Xvesa (or killall Xorg)? It works for me , but you are also running the risk of loosing other processes (e.g. xterms etc.).

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Re: Opposite command to startx?
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2010, 02:24:22 AM »
Thanks, I'll try that.

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Re: Opposite command to startx?
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2010, 06:33:19 AM »
IIRC X shuts down "gracefully" when nothing runs on it, ie the wm is killed. I almost never bother though, I just use ctrl-alt-backspace ;)
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