On Mon, 5 Jul 2004 02:15:09 -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote > > Hmmm perhaps ctrl-alt-backspace restarts X when you start up in > runlevel 5 but when you start up in runlevel 3 and use startx to > fire up the gui, ctrl-alt-backspace causes X to shut down while > complaining about losing the connection to the x server, and dumps > you back in runlevel 3 in the still running shell from which you > did the startx command. At least thats how it's always worked for > me. I'm guessing that if there isn't a parent shell to fall back to > when X is reset, it automatically restarts. But that if its a child > process of a shell, the parent shell resumes instead? When you are in runlevel 5, the X server is a child process of an X display manager (either xdm, gdm, or kdm, dependant on system configuration). This process watches for the X server exiting and automatically restarts it. When you press CTRL-ALT-BS in runlevel 5, the same thing is happening as in runlevel 3 -- the X server itself is actually shutting down and exiting. The X server appears to "restart itself" but what's actually happening is the display manager starting a new X server instance. In runlevel 3, there is no display manager running so when the X server exits, it must be restarted manually (from the command line prompt like was used to start the previous instance). Hope this is useful information! -- Chris "Build a man a fire and he will be warm for the rest of the night. Set a man on fire and he will be warm for the rest of his life." -- Unknown
