<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">you have to shut it down differently.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="">
<ol class="gmail-X5LH0c" style="font-family:Roboto,arial,sans-serif;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:16px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><li class="gmail-TrT0Xe" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style:inherit">Use ctrl + alt + F1 to switch to terminal,</li><li class="gmail-TrT0Xe" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style:inherit">login.</li><li class="gmail-TrT0Xe" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style:inherit">run sudo service lightdm<span> </span><b>stop</b><span> </span>, lightdm and<span> </span><b>xserver</b><span> </span>should be stopped now (check with ctrl + alt + F7 , which is your current<span> </span><b>xorg</b><span> </span>session, it should not show any desktop now)</li><li class="gmail-TrT0Xe" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style:inherit">do your things.</li><li class="gmail-TrT0Xe" style="margin:0px 0px 4px;padding:0px;border:0px;list-style:inherit">run sudo service lightdm start to start lightdm and<span> </span><b>xorg</b><span> </span>again.</li></ol><div style=""><font face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><br></span></font></div><div style=""><font face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">Replace lightdm with the following as required.</span></font></div><div style=""><font face="Roboto, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px">
<pre style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:5px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;width:auto;max-height:600px;overflow:auto;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);word-wrap:normal;color:rgb(36,39,41);text-align:left;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><code style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Consolas,Menlo,Monaco,"Lucida Console","Liberation Mono","DejaVu Sans Mono","Bitstream Vera Sans Mono","Courier New",monospace,sans-serif;font-size:13px;vertical-align:baseline;box-sizing:inherit;background-color:rgb(239,240,241);white-space:inherit">sudo service gdm stop
sudo service kdm stop</code></pre>
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<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Mon, Jul 30, 2018 at 9:57 AM Jim <<a href="mailto:jim.nantz15@comcast.net">jim.nantz15@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I have a problem killing the x server. I have Kubuntu 18 installed. <br>
I've gone into system settings / input devices / keyboard and enabled <br>
the option to kill the x server using control alt backspace, but it <br>
doesn't work. I created another user account and it works if I'm logged <br>
in as the other user. I know I could nuke all this account's settings <br>
and start from scratch, but I have this account configured like I like <br>
except for the ability to kill the x server. Does anyone have any idea <br>
what file needs to be edited or deleted, or is there something else? Thanks<br>
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