On 10/06/12 11:54, Terry Coles wrote:
I now know that CTL-ESC would have brought up a System Activity window, but I don't know if that would have done the trick at the time. Is there a hot-hey combo that overrides everything, like ALT-CTRL-DEL does in Windows?
On Ubuntu 12.04, you can set up ALT-CTRL-DEL to bring up the gnome-system-monitor but I'm not sure it would have worked as I don't think it overrides everything like on Windows where it often works even when UI appears frozen. Not sure about how to set it up in Kunbuntu as I'm not familiar with KDE, but in Ubuntu, it is simply set up in keyboard app.
When my Ubuntu system freezes, I find that quite often ctrl-alt-F1 works so I can then login and use sudo top, sudo ps -A and sudo kill to find out the troubled process and kill it.
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