I have in my .xinitrc
the line dbus-launch --exit-with-session stumpwm
. Occasionally, I'll want to kill everything that has to do with X, get back to a terminal, and start over.
If I ps aux | grep stumpwm
and kill the StumpWM process, the window manager dies, but everything with x11 still works. I can type in the window that currently has focus but I can't change focus or do any other window management.
I also tried sudo kill -9 startx
, no effect. I noticed another "x" process, xinit
, and killing that also had no effect.