[NTLUG:Discuss] XFree86

[Vaidya, Harshal (Cognizant)]

This is a round about way of doing the thing you mentioned. Of course,
this is not the best solution.

I never boot into runlevel 5 (from your mail below, it looks like you
do). I always boot into runlevel 3 and login on a command prompt.
Immediately after login I run a custom made bash script which starts X
for me. 
So, if I want to stop X, I log out which takes me back to the command
prompt and fire startx again. This would re-load the config file. 

Harshal.


-----Original Message-----
From: MadHat [mailto:madhat at unspecific.com] 
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 11:49 PM
To: NTLUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] XFree86

On Mon, 2003-04-14 at 12:57, Greg Edwards wrote:
> MadHat wrote:
> > Is there a way to restart X, more specifically reload the config,
> > without logging out and back in.  In other words, if I am using an
XDM
> > to log in, usually if X dies (or I hit Ctrl-Alt-Bcksp, do a 'kill
-1' or
> > in anyway make X hickup), it goes back to the login screen.  If I
want
> > to just have X stop and restart, but not log me out, is there a way
to
> > do that?  I want to be able to change which Config I am using
without
> > logging out, restarting X and logginf back in.
> > 
> > I have read this is in the works for XFree86 5.0.  Dynamically
change
> > color depth, resolution and rotation on the fly.
> > 
> > 
> 
> As far as I've every been able to find is that X is an all or nothing 
> config.  It only reads the config file on startup.  However, you can
run 
> multiple sessions ie display:0 and display:1.

I understand that, and don't mind actually restarting X, its that with
an XDM, when you log in it starts X with an auth agent and a set of
credentials.   So I was wondering if anyone knew if it would be possible
to restart X without losing the credentials.

Thanks and I'll let you know if I figure something out before 5.0 is
released ;)

-- 
MadHat at Unspecific.com
`But I don't want to go among mad people,' Alice remarked.
`Oh, you can't help that,' said the Cat: `we're all mad here...'
   -- Lewis Carroll - _Alice's_Adventures_in_Wonderland_


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