Shea Martin wrote:
>
> I wrote in about a month or two ago wondering how to get my monitor to
> blank off. Today, I got reinterested in the subject. Here is the sol'n
> I found: apt-get install gxset; gxset ->*note the screensaver tab!
>
> Stupid question:
> How can I shut down my x server? Whenever I do a ctrl-alt-bkspc, x just
> starts right back up again. I think this has something to do with gdm.
> How can I prevent gdm from restarting x, when I don't want it running?
> Reason I want to do this: Going home for holidays. From parent's house
> I would like to ssh into my machine, start vncserver, then open up a
> vncveiwer on local machine. but I know if gdm is running, I
> ctrl-alt-F2orF2etc, and I type startx, it says that it cannont connect
> to server. Does this make any sense to anyone out there?
>
> Shea Martin
> ~~~~~~~~~~~
> Duke of Silton
> &
> Earl of S'toon
> ###########
>
killall gdm
will do it quick.
/etc/init.d/gdm stop
will be a more nicer way
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Alan Saporta
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