How to restart Xfce?

[David Mohr]

On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Quiring, Sam
<Sam.Quiring at windriver.com> wrote:
> David,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  There is no file /etc/init.d/gdm on the system.  Is that file supposed to be installed when Xfce is the desktop?

No, it's not necessary, but you can if you like (and don't mind the
extra "weight"), and use it to login to Xfce.

So right now I guess you're starting Xfce through a terminal login and
then startxfce4 ? In that case you should be able to kill the X server
through the ssh login.
Maybe kill -9 `pidof X` might be sufficient, though I'm not exactly
sure right now.

~David

> -Sam
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xfce4-dev-bounces at xfce.org [mailto:xfce4-dev-bounces at xfce.org] On Behalf Of David Mohr
> Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:01 AM
> To: XFCE4 development list
> Subject: Re: How to restart Xfce?
>
> On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 8:40 AM, Quiring, Sam <Sam.Quiring at windriver.com> wrote:
>> Greetings,
>>
>> I am working on an Accessibility application on a Linux instance with
>> Xfce as the desktop.  Mozilla's Minefield is the internet browser.  We
>> are experiencing some difficulties where some accessibility operations
>> on Minefield cause the entire desktop to freeze.  It is getting really
>> tiresome to have to reboot the image.
>>
>> We can PuTTY into linux and the resulting ssh interface is still alive
>> even though Xfce is frozen.  So I'm looking for a command or commands
>> to restart just the desktop.  I hope this is the right mailing list.
>>
>> We had a similiar problem with the GNOME desktop and this command
>> worked great for us:
>>
>> % sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart
>
> This will also work for xfce.
>
> The reason why an ssh session might still be alive when the desktop is frozen, is that just the graphical session is frozen up, the rest of the computer is still working fine. So the issue you are having is not really an Xfce one, but rather an X one.
>
> ~David
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