I know this may seem like a dumb question to some, but to those of us who are somewhat new to these Pi distros this kind of thing can be very frustrating...
I am trying to run the game emulator "emulationstation". Any time I run it ti tells me that X is still running and I need to kill X... but I have no idea how to kill X and none of the methods I have found on Google work at all.
I would like to know how exactly do I completely exit from the LXDE GUI in raspbian and get back to a command prompt and also kill X?
I have tried logging out from LXDE, but that no longer drops me to a command prompt... it now takes me to what looks like a DE manager login screen. If I remember right it used to just exit to the command prompt, but after the latest update it no longer does that... anyone know why?
I have tried "ctrl+alt+F1", but thathow do i stop the gui in raspbian does not actually exit the GUI... X is still running in the background. I need to stop X from running.
What is the command to kill X and prevent it from auto-starting again?
I have tried "sudo pkill X" but I get errors using that and it doesn't work. I also tried "ctrl+alt+backspace" but that does nothing. I have tried "alt+printscreen+K" that does nothing. I've tried "init 3" and that doesn't work. I've tried "service dm stop" and it can't find the service.
How do you kill x?