An even more lazy approach is logging into the console, regardless if textmode or framebuffer, and simply do upward arrow & enter, since whatever starts your

An even more lazy approach is logging into the console, regardless if textmode or framebuffer, and simply do upward arrow & enter, since whatever starts your session is the last entry in shell history anyways :-) This way there is less surprise/annoyance with flickering/crashing X, like you could have when starting X unconditionally after login, which could happen after you modified something to test. On another console, to not spoil the history for that upward arrow & enter thing ;-) Which works regardless of shell/WM/DE/OS/whatever, at least it does so for me.