On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Justin Findlay wrote: > OK, so I had a text file in which I wanted to make a vertical selection, > so I opened up kdevelop, yes I know, but can you tell me a simpler way to > do it?
Um, vi? If I understand what you want to do correctly, vi does vertical selections with CTRL-V. (Very, very handy.) > Is there a key command that > I can do when this happens? Did GNOME really crash? Can I do anything to > get a terminal as if I knew what I would do when I got one under the > circumstances, or restart the desktop, or otherwise in any other way > return control of the operating system back to the cluless end-user? ctrl-alt-backspace will kill the X server (basically the desktop, as far as we're concerned). If that doesn't work, in my experience, you're basically hosed. Before you try that, if you do manage to get a terminal (if you happen to have another machine on a local network, you can ssh in and almost always get a terminal) then you can use that to kill off processes that look evil. "top" will tell you what processes are hogging all your system resources (usually the problem when your system is running reallllyy sllloowwlllyy or crash-and-burns), and then either "killall" followed by the named of the command (e.g. "killall mozilla-bin") or "kill" followed by the process ID number as listed by top (e.g. "kill 3201"). That will attempt to shut down the process nicely. If that fails, and the process doesn't die, you'll have to kill -9 it, e.g. "killall -9 mozilla-bin" or "kill -9 3201". That should kill all but the most stubborn programs. ~ Ross -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
