kdm restart and back into root shell from KDE

[Justin Denick]

CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE

This will restart the entire Xserver and all child processes

On 4/17/06, Philip Rodrigues <philip.rodrigues at chch.ox.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Bram Kuijper wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I got two KDE-related newby questions, which I posted also on the
> FreeBSD
> > mailing list, but up to now without response.
>
> I'm running FreeBSD, but I'm not too familiar with kdm. You could ask on
> the
> kde at freebsd.org list, where someone will probably have the answer. That
> said, here are some guesses...
>
> > 1. How do I restart a KDE session after I changed some config files? In
> > Linux this is
> >
> > /etc/init.d/kdm restart
> >
> > But since there is no init.d on FreeBSD, I'm stuck.
>
> Since kdm is started by /etc/ttys, you might just be able to "killall
> kdm",
> and it'll get restarted.
>
> > 2. Is there any way I can shutdown KDE and get back to a root shell? If
> I
> > choose 'log out' from KDE, I am still in the KDE environment and fixed
> to
> > choose another user to login again. If I choose 'shutdown KDE', it
> issues
> > a shutdown command to shutdown my PC, and that's also not what I want. I
> > just want to shutdown KDE and get back into a root shell. Think it's an
> > easy thing to configure, but where?
>
> If you want that to be the default behaviour, just remove kdm from
> /etc/ttys
> (check freebsd.kde.org and the FreeBSD Handbook for exact syntax of that
> file). If you only want to do that sometimes, I guess just hitting
> Ctrl+Alt+Fn, where 1 <= n <= 8 would be easiest.
>
> Regards,
> Philip
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