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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!stdio!uky.edu!news.campus.mci.net!n-f-m From: Anthony Jenkins <ajenkins@auburn.campus.mci.net> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: How to break out of XDM??? Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 17:19:32 -0500 Organization: CampusMCI Lines: 20 Message-ID: <33C019F4.730D37CD@auburn.campus.mci.net> References: <Pine.A32.3.91.970703211552.5450A-100000@pheebs.citytel.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: s25-pm04.auburn.campus.mci.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.0b5C (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.1-RELEASE i386) X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:44027 Keith W. wrote: > Dont know how to do this, but I finally got X to work runing XDM as > root > . Works fine I login in as myself, benn having a dandy time playing > around. But how in the gol-darned does one quit X? You can kill the > seesion and log back into X, but how do you kill it completely to get > back to the command line? > > thanks! > kwoody@citytel.net This bugged me for a while... trying to configure my Xserver. I'd kill xdm(1), only to have it resurrect itself and put an xlogin widget on the screen (or try to). Finally realized I had xdm in my /etc/ttys file. If this is what you have, find the ttyvX line with "xdm" in /etc/ttys and change 'on' to 'off', *THEN* kill xdm. Anthony Jenkins