On 11 August 2011 11:04, Yasha Karant <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have attempted to get a misbehaving X windows system to restart without
> rebooting the machine.  In the past, as I recall, ctrl-alt-backspace would
> do this.  This evidently has been disabled with the current X windows
> releases on Linux, including SL 6 .  What is the current equivalent (perhaps
> a shell command), or how does one reactivate a control sequence to force the
> X server to exit and restart/reinitialize, with a fresh login screen?

This for gnome works for me...

http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-enabledisable-ctrlaltbackspace-in-ubuntu-9-10-karmic.html



>
> I have found some references using a web search to this issue for a number
> of current Linux distributions, but none of the offered "cures" seem to work
> with SL 6 (or presumably any RHEL 6 variant).
>
> Yasha Karant
>