Exiting KDE 3.

prorace · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3 Location: new york

This is a kind dumb question but, how do you exit KDE 3.
I mean it is working as it should and then I want to exit kde completely. So I would go back to shell.

My brain was somewhat shout at 3AM when I finished compiling KDE yesterday. I did log off and that takes me to log on screen with halt or reboot option. All I can think of was to alt+ctrl+shift+f4 thing and kill processes manually.

I looked through the forums and google but can't see anything from top of the hat.

GeKA · n00b Joined: 27 Sep 2002 Posts: 33 Location: Graz / Styria

type Ctrl + Alt + F1 then can see the shell
there you can kill X i think.

Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

Best way would be to kill the daemon as described here.

prorace · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3 Location: new york

Well I just got home and gave this another look.

I start KDE through kdm login. When it starts I could only login as a valid user or do a logoff with ether reboot or halt (shutdown).

That kinda reminds me of win nt 4 if you don't know a login when machine is up the only way to turn it off is by pulling the plug and risking screwing partition table.

The mandrake implementation of KDE has that option " EXIT or something like that" which takes you to a shell. Makes perfect sense

Should i look into adding custom option to a logoff screen through custom menu or am i missing something simple as an option in the control center.

I don't want to keep killing the kdm and X procs.

prorace · n00b Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3 Location: new york

just to be clear I do want to have kdm login but i also want to have a menu option to exit into a shell.

elzbal · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 12:47 am Post subject:

You don't necessarily have to 'exit' the windowing system to get to the system console. Just type ctl-alt-F1 (or any ctl-alt-Fn where n is 1-6) to get to one of your system consoles. Type ctl-alt-F7 to get back to the windowing system.

To completely kill off the windowing system (which shouldn't be necessary in most cases), do a 'killall X'.

tkdack · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 1:00 am Post subject:

Look at the options for the Login Manager in the KDE Control Center. You can turn all sorts of things on and off in there WRT the login screen.

You might need to click the "Administrator" button and enter your root password to actually get all of the options as selectable.
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Naan Yaar · Bodhisattva Joined: 27 Jun 2002 Posts: 1549

If {k,g,x}dm is active it will restart the X server if you do this. It would be best to start/stop the "xdm" service using the runscripts.

tkdack · Posted: Wed Jan 22, 2003 1:26 am Post subject:

The "Gentoo way" so stop the x/k/gdm login screen is to do:

# /etc/init.d/xdm stop

You really should do this from a console.

If you are wanting a way to get a console login and not have X, then Ctrl+Alt+F1-6 is going to be the easiest option. If you really don't want X running then you can either login as root or su - and stop X as shown above.
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