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From: conrads@neosoft.com (Conrad Sabatier)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to break out of XDM???
Date: Fri, 4 Jul 1997 10:06:25 -0500
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In article <Pine.A32.3.91.970703211552.5450A-100000@pheebs.citytel.net>,
Keith W. <kwoody@citytel.net> wrote:
>
>Dont know how to do this, but I finally got X to work runing XDM as root 
>.. Works fine I login in as myself, benn having a dandy time playing 
>around. But how in the gol-darned does one quit X? You can kill the 
>seesion and log back into X, but how do you kill it completely to get 
>back to the command line?

Switch over to one of the virtual terminals (CTL-ALT-Fn) and login as
root.

ps ax | egrep "xdm|X"

Then kill those ID's (xdm first, then X).

At least, that's how I do it.  There may be a better way.
-- 
Conrad Sabatier				FreeBSD user since 06/96, because...
http://www.neosoft.com/~conrads		"The best things in life are free"