On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Paul Wharff wrote: > Eric <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Fri, 2003-02-07 at >14:16:56 -0800, Paul Wharff proclaimed... > >>> I'm farely new to the linux/unix world. I just installed Railroad >>> Tycoon II and occasionally it locks up, but I still have control of >>> my mouse. How do I Force-Quit it like on the Mac or do the >> >3-finger-salute like on Windows or how do I kill any application for >>> that matter. By the way, don't tell me to use the "kill" command, I >>> know this, however my problem is that I'm stuck in this game and I >can't get back to the Xwindows file system. Thanks for any of your > >imput in advance. --Paul > >>Try CTRL+ALT+Backspace >> >>Twice if need be. >> >>That is, if you don't have "DontZap" in your config file. > >Thanks for the help, but that also didn't work. Where can I find the >config file to see if DontZap is enabled or not. Any other help is >appreciated.
Please, wrap lines <80 chars and quote the mail you're replying to above (logic: a question comes before an answer) If, as your first respondent suggested, you don't have "DontZap", then the Ctrl-Alt-Bksp should kill the instance of the X server. If that isn't working then you could try Ctrl-Alt-Fn (n>=2) to get another virtual console. Within that virtual console you could use the "kill" command on the PID of "Railroad Tycoon II". If, for some weird reason, you don't want to do that then you could shut the whole machine down (ugh!) by doing a Ctrl-Alt-Del twice. That is the equivalent of Microsofts three-finger salute. This is an inelegant and deprecated way of coping with the problem in GNU/Linux, *BSD. If it's the only option open to you then you've got a problem with your X-server and you should post details of your error-logs and config-file after you've examined them. Does that help? Oisin Feeley _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
