Timeline for Catch-all command to restart display manager?
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| Feb 20, 2018 at 2:10 | comment | added | cas | @quixotic that would also stop and restart a lot of other things that had nothing to do with the display manager. I don't think there's any generic solution that will always work - even Bigon's answer will only work sometimes (probably even most of the time - when the base filename of the display-manager's executable is identical to the service name....works for, e.g., lightdm and gdm. It may not work for others) | |
| Feb 19, 2018 at 20:50 | comment | added | quixotic | in the traditional init system, switching from runlevel 5 to runlevel 3 and back is probably the closest you'll find to a generic means of stopping and starting the display manager. this could fail in systems that chose not to follow the conventional runlevel definitions. i don't know how well this translates to the various modern init systems. | |
| Feb 19, 2018 at 19:42 | answer | added | Bigon | timeline score: 7 | |
| Feb 19, 2018 at 19:21 | history | asked | Ethan McTague | CC BY-SA 3.0 |