[wronex]

Presumably the stop command is killing child processes as well, so you need a way to kill a process without killing it's children.

Sound correct. Anyone knows how to do that?

Or maybe I can perform the tasks while XBMC is running and then restart it with a single command, thus not getting into the child process problem?

I am trying to change my xorg.conf at run time and without restarting the computer.

Is there a single line command that can be run from bash to restart only the xbmc app.