Paul Lussier wrote:
>So, I was trying to log in to a system with completely illegible
>characters for the text of the screen. I evidently succeeded in
>killing xscreensaver, or at least making it rather angry at me, with a
>very carefully typed command of:
>
> > kill `ps -ef| grep xscreen|awk '{print $2}'`
>
No need to get quite so elaborate there, Paul: the "killall" command is
your friend.
> killall xscreensaver
would have done the trick handily. HOWEVER, note the comment from the
killall manpage before making this one programmed into your fingertips:
Be warned that typing "killall <processname>" may not have the
desired effect on
non-Linux systems, especially when done by a privileged user.
Translation: under Solaris, and other systems, I'm sure, "killall" does
exactly that: kills everything. I hate it when that happens.
-Ken
P.S. With the 1600sw, you have to exit gracefully from X a lot of the
time -- when X is FUBAR, your text console frequently is, too. *sigh*
I love my 1600sw, but I admit that those really cheap 1600x1200 monitors
are looking pretty nice when I consider that I could use a *real* video
card with them.
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