Kill and Restart VIA Terminal?

[seeker22]

Sometimes KDE freezes when doing drag and drop, so I push CRTL+ALT+F1 but from there I just reboot cause I dont know the commands.. can someone tell me how to kill kde and x and restart it? so I dont have to reboot that get's annoying! thanks

[bdg1983]

You could try CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE if KDE isn't too frozen.

[seeker22]

yeah but I want to kill it and restart it from linux with no x windows

[shaggy112]

yeah...there might be a pid file in /var/run (depending on distro)
otherwise do something like
ps aux | grep 'kde'

then when you have pid.

kill ###

you can do the same for 'X'.

[Craig McPherson]

Just do this:

ps aux | grep X

Then kill -9 the X process.

[seeker22]

Ok, and now how do I restart x and kde ? just type startx?

[bdg1983]

I believe 'startkde' will start both. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[seeker22]

Ok thankyou guys very much!