I am planning to install the latest patch for XFree86, but I don't know how to shutdown the X server. When I logout of KDE, at the login screen there's an option to shutdown, but that shuts down the whole computer. I know that I can switch to another virtual console and use the kill command, but I don't know what PID the X server has. Is there any way I can find this out? Or any other way I can shutdown the X server? Thanks. God bless Hiran

At a console prompt run: top This will let you see avail processes. Type k and then a PID to kill the process of your choice.

Open a terminal and type init 3 this will dump you to the command prompt and you'll have to log in again. To restart the xserver, either type startx or type init 5

The X server is not started in the runlevel 3. thats why you should switch to runlevel 3 rather than runlevel 5. you also can switch to runlevel 1. just note that every times you having GUI, u are working under runlevel 5. to know what runlevel ua in just type "runlevel". if you want to swich between runlevel, just type "telinit x" or "init x". x can be 0 - shutdown s/S/1 - single user mode 3 - multi user mode without X server 5 - multi user mode with X server (GUI) 6 - reboot actually "telinit" is a symlink to "init" hope thats helped.

Have you tried Ctrl-Alt-Shift-Backspace?