If I restart the Display Manager, e.g lightdm, will X be restarted as well ?
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It depends on your configuration: you can have X-window Server started by itself and then the Display Manager process or Display Manager could start the X-window server.
I have X server started by kdm in OpenSuse 12.1:
kdm(4655)─┬─Xorg(4671) └─kdm(4698)───startkde(4800)─┬─gpg-agent(4877) ├─kwrapper4(4977) └─ssh-agent(4878) If you use Unix with Xorg and pstree you can check by:
pstree -p `ps -H -C Xorg -o ppid --no-header` or
ps -H -C Xorg -o ppid --no-header | xargs pstree -p 
pgrep X, restart lightdm,pgrep X, compare.:)