kde(3) mutterings

[Jay Nugent]

Greetings,

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Tim Wunder wrote:

> Previously, Jay Nugent chose to write:
> > Greetings,
> <snip>
> >
> >    You don't EVER have to drop out of X and into a TTY to do work as root.
> Not even to update X? or your video driver? or your login manager? or your 
> window manager? or your desktop environment?

   In those situations you don't use ALT-F# to perform an upgrade to X.  X 
is *still* running on the system.  You 'telinit 1' or reboot into single 
user mode.  

      --- Jay
             
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