Thank You! That has helped a lot. I will try it again as soon as it locks again. Do you know how to get it to simulate a lock? LOL! Anyway, thanks again. --Paul
--- "Oisin C. Feeley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
