On Wed, 05 Sep 2001, you wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have rotation support working with XFree86 including coordination of
> display rotation and touch screen driver rotation. That all is working
> very well, but we of course need to exit X and restart it for the new
> rotation to take effect.
>
> This is fine for the initial deployment, but there is a requirement to have
> a button that kicks off a script that will kill off X and then restart it.
>
> I have the restarting working just fine, but wondered if there was a safe,
> reliable way to kill X from a script?
>
> Is there anything other than greping the output of ps, extracting the
> process ID for X and passing that to kill? If not, is there an example
> script somewhere that you could point me to?
I don't know the safe way
but the extracting id bit and killing it is a script called "killall"
hmm
except you have to worry about if theres multiple servers running :P
>
> Thanks,
> Burt
>
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