On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 08:21:10PM -0800, Oisin C. Feeley wrote: > 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".
I find it extremely helpful to run a kernel compiled with 'Magic SysRq' enabled. That way, I can hit alt-SysRq-K (yes, all three at once) to kill everything running on the current virtual terminal, such as the X server. I have to do that occasionally when it won't respond to ctrl-alt-backspace or anything. However, you do need it enabled in the kernel. > 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. Odd... what does hitting it *twice* do? I've never heard of such a thing. In my experience, the ctrl-alt-delete sequence, when used in X, doesn't trigger the shutdown or reboot process as it does from virtual (text) terminals. It's possible to set KDE (and probably GNOME et al.) to bind the sequence to log the user out, though. -- Furrfu! r a k k o at c h a r t e r dot n e t _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
