How do I restart KDM?

[Geoffray Levasseur]

On Friday 18 February 2011 06:53:53 Linus Östberg wrote:
> It is possible to reactivate the shortcut in xorg.conf. Otherwise, you
> can restart kdm by pressing alt-e when at kdm's login screen.
> 
> On Fri, Feb 18, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc at arcor.de> wrote:
> > In days long ago, it was possible to restart KDM with
> > ctrl+alt+backspace.  That doesn't work anymore.  Is there a way to
> > restart KDM without logging in as root and restart the service?
> > 
For me, the cleaner way is to restart it using the init script of your distro. 
If you kill the X server (or if you log out) a new KDM instance is launched 
using a parent KDM, so, in case of KDM update you can have a parent process 
with a different version than the child one... The parent process is like a 
deamon that start again the child process each time it's terminated or killed 
(and so the X server at the same time if needed).

To restart the deamon (so the parent process):
* on Debian and *Ubuntu: /etc/init.d/kdm restart
* on OpenSuse and Gentoo: /etc/init.d/xdm restart

Don't know for other distro.

Hope I'm clear enough and I've done no mistake ;)
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