Lost my monitor in KDE

Liberty Young plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
30 Oct 2002 08:28:56 -0700


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 <ruler111@cox.net> 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
> > 
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