On Thursday 05 December 2002 11:28 pm, Jerry wrote:
> tested out to see if ctrl-alt-backspace would stop xwindows like it did the
> first time. instead of stopping xwindows totally, it restarted gdm and I'm
> stuck back at the same place I was before. I know there's got to be a way
> to do this. I don't have a problem writing a shell script with the
> commands to do it the way i want, but i don't know which commands to use.
> I imagine it has to do with starting Gnome withOUT starting gdm, am I
> right? Thanks so much for your help on this :) You're very kind.
>
> Jerry.
I'm a newbie too. Here's how I found to stop xdm/kdm/gdm:
CTRL-ALT-F1
ps -A
kill -9 {whatever the process number is for gdm}
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