On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Masami and Ken Nakata wrote:

.. On Sat, 1 Feb 1997 16:38:21 -0800 (PST),
.. wrstuden@loki.stanford.edu (Bill Studenmund) wrote:
.. > > 
.. > > Just a quick question...
.. > > 
.. > > Is there any way to kill the X server without having to use any menus?
.. > > (I screwed up my .fvwm2rc file and had to do a hard reboot... oops!)
.. > 
.. > I'm not sure if this works on NetBSD, but maybe try control-option-delete.
.. > It works on our RS/6k, and I'm not sure if it's a n CX thing, or an IBM
..                                                     ^^^^^^^^ what's this?
.. > thing.
.. 
.. If you aren't runnign xdm, I think it's pretty safe to kill the server
.. by its pid (i.e. ps then kill).
.. 
.. Ken
.. 


And if you are running xdm, the way to do it is to find xdm's pid and then
kill xdm. Xdm will then close down and in the process of doing that, it
will also stop the X server.

- Erik Bertelsen