One way to restart X (assuming your at the X station and the keyboard still works) is to do CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. On Wed, 2002-10-30 at 02:23, Alex Munro wrote: > Thanks, I can see again! > > I did a shutdown -r to restart X, I'm sure there's a > better way. > > Alex > --- Eric Andresen wrote: > > Any editor will work fine (vi, pico, emacs, joe, > > whatever.). Just > > restart X after you're done editing it. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] > > On Behalf Of Alex > > Munro > > Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 12:28 AM > > To: plug-discuss > > Subject: Lost my monitor in KDE > > > > I just switched monitors on my Mandrake 9 box and > > can't get into KDE. Following previouse threads in > > discuss I've learned where to look in my > > "/etc/X11/XF86config-4" file and found where the old > > monitor is defined. Can I directly edit this file > > with > > vi to update it to my new monitor, or is there a > > utility I should be using? > > > > Thanks for your help, > > Alex > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now > > http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > > settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > > settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now > http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss