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Date:      Sun, 07 Nov 2004 22:36:32 -0800
From:      Jay O'Brien <jayobrien@att.net>
To:        Frank Knobbe <frank@knobbe.us>, FreeBSD - questions <questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: How to get out of GNOME?
Message-ID:  <418F13F0.5000704@att.net>
In-Reply-To: <1099890564.553.1.camel@localhost>
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Frank Knobbe wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-10-31 at 00:27, Jay O'Brien wrote:
> 
>>There's got to be a way to shut GNOME and XFree86 down without 
>>rebooting! At least that works. I wonder if this may be the time 
>>to go to version 5 and the newer version of X?
> 
> 
> Manually? 
> 
> To stop Gnome: /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh stop
> To start Gnome: /usr/X11R6/etc/rc.d/gdm.sh start
> 
> Permanently? Remove the gdm.sh file.
> 
> Regards,
> Frank
> 

Frank, that works perfectly. However, copying gdm.sh.sample as
gdm.sh so that "stop" will work also starts gdm on boot, and I 
don't want that. 

However, I now see what gdm.sh is doing. The command, from that 
file, is 'killall -m gdm 2' and that is much simpler than running 
top, identifying the PID and then killing the gdm binary.  

Thanks for showing me the way!

Jay O'Brien






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