Re: stopping gnome

[Tom <mailaccount200001 yahoo com>]

--- James Simons <jsimons ntinet com> wrote:
> I have the need to start and stop xwindows (Gnome)
> on my system. What is the command for doing this,
> I know startx is used to start xwindows and I have
> tried endx, stopx, nox, xstop, xend, etc.  I know
> this has got to be something simple.

Somebody who knows about a hundred times as much as
I do told me never to use "startx" for security
reasons. He said (from a shell) to type "init 5" to
start X, and "init 3" to stop it (and I have done it
that way ever since then).

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