[Burt Bicksler]
> The application that I am working on needs to be able to initiate
> a change that will only take effect when X is restarted. The user
> will launch an application, or script, that will make the
> configuration change and then terminate X, with X restarting to
> apply the configuration change.
>
> We have one mechanism that will work, but it is not elegant.
>
> So I need to work out a simple way to have X restart once it has
> terminated, without any additional interaction from the user.
> Ideally this should be able to run from within X. The first two
> parts, changing the configuration and then Killing X, are easy.
I believe this is called xdm :) We have two users, "24bit" and "8bit",
with no passwords set, and login shells which will change the
configuration between TrueColor and PseudoColor. Users with specific
needs will first log on as one of these pseudousers, X will terminate,
xdm will start a new X server, they log on as themselves. It's not
very elegant, but it works fine.
Kjetil T.
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