Quote Originally Posted by hrobinson57
The thing is won't I have to shut down running programs to restart X? Or is there some way to do that? If I have to stop the programs I might as well reboot. I tried the reconfigure idea, but it didn't seem to help. Thanks anyway.

Hal
You can restart X by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

Or by running "sudo init 2" from konsole, and then "sudo init 5" to start X again.