Re: Launcher icons on tasklist?

[Telsa Gwynne <hobbit aloss ukuu org uk>]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2000 at 10:51:49AM -0700 or thereabouts, Adam Sleight wrote:
> Threw HelixGNOME 1.2 on my mailserver.
> Changed /etc/inittab from 5 to 3 so it won't start X.
> How can I get out of X without restarting the computer. It's not an
> option.

It is, honest.

> CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE just returns me to the HelixGNOME login
> screen and it only gives me the option to HALT or REBOOT.

Control-alt-backspace kills the Xserver. Whilst gdm (or xdm or
kdm, but I assume gdm if you're using Helix) is running, it will 
spot it's been killed and restart it for the next user. This is
what it's meant to do. 
 
> I'm I just supposed to CTRL-SHIFT-ALT-F2 and kill any processes 
> of X? Can't it offer you the option to exit X in addition to Halt 
> & Reboot?

I don't use gdm. But (assuming you are _not_ on Solaris, where
this command does something quite, quite, different which you
won't want..), I would think you can control-alt-F2 and login
as root, and then 'killall gdm'. That will kill gdm off, and if
gdm isn't there, then it won't keep restarting the Xserver.

Telsa