Release Found: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4
1. Navigate to the /etc/X11/gdm directory.
2. In the gdm.conf file, change #SystemMenu=true to :SystemMenu=false
3. Restart ‘X’ by holding and releasing Ctrl + Alt + Backspace.
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January 16th, 2008 at 11:42 am
Are you sure about using Ctrl + Alt + Backspace? I always though that was a last resort, when you were having problems. It doesn’t perform a clean shutdown, but simply disconnects open apps from the X session, so you’ll often have a lot of leftover processes that didn’t get cleanly stopped.
January 16th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
CTRL + ALT + Backspace should be fine. That simply kills the x server and only gdm needs to be restarted (which that ought to do). Personally, I would use “killall gdm-binary” for the same thing in most circumstances to make certain I was restarting the process that I was actually making the change to. Does that sounds more sensible to you?
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:20 am
What about gdm-restart ?