[SWLUG] Re: Discuss Digest, Vol 5, Issue 20

[Adam Rykala]

On Friday 28 January 2005 11:12 am, you wrote:
> MCC? Is that Mandy Control Centre? I've not used it for a while ...
>
> As no-one seemed to offer solutions on-list (except your back posting)
> it might be instructive [but then again not] to know how others would
> have done it. Perhaps I'm too reliant on the command line but I'd have
> used ctrl-alt-backspace to close the window manager. From the command
> prompt you can then log in as root and alter your XF86Config file (or
> equivalent thought I think X.org uses this file too) directly using a
> text editor. I use nano (a clone of pico) as I can never remember the
> commands for vim [except for <esc> followed by :q! ]. Adam's method was
> a lot more sensible though!!
>
> Wibble-wibble pop!
>
> pbhj
>

Most xorg installs I have seen link xorg.conf to xf86config....

With Init 5, CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE will kill X but it will respawn - other then 
ALT-F2 (Gnome/KDE specific unfortuantely) I'd normally

CONTROL-ALT-F1 to get to a text console
login as root
init 3 (to get rid of X ) though for some things I'd go down to single user 
mode (init 1)

use either pico, nano, joe or vi to edit the file and then init 5

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