Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:36:32 -0800 From: Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net> To: Frank Knobbe <frank@knobbe.us>, FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: How to get out of GNOME? Message-ID: <418F13F0.5000704@att.net> In-Reply-To: <1099890564.553.1.camel@localhost> References: <41842DAB.7080901@att.net> <57d710000410301715351b45a5@mail.gmail.com> <418436F8.8060703@att.net> <200410301854.48655.mnavarre@cox.net> <418446BA.6070503@att.net> <41846D21.4030305@bellsouth.net> <418477CD.8090903@att.net> <1099890564.553.1.camel@localhost>
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Frank Knobbe wrote: > On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 00:27, Jay O'Brien wrote: > >>There's got to be a way to shut GNOME and XFree86 down without >>rebooting! At least that works. I wonder if this may be the time >>to go to version 5 and the newer version of X? > > > Manually? > > To stop Gnome: /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh stop > To start Gnome: /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start > > Permanently? Remove the gdm.sh file. > > Regards, > Frank > Frank, that works perfectly. However, copying gdm.sh.sample as gdm.sh so that "stop" will work also starts gdm on boot, and I don't want that. However, I now see what gdm.sh is doing. The command, from that file, is 'killall -m gdm 2' and that is much simpler than running top, identifying the PID and then killing the gdm binary. Thanks for showing me the way! Jay O'Brien
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