On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 13:04 -0500, James Knott wrote: > Eberhard Roloff wrote: > > jdd wrote: > >> Eberhard Roloff wrote: > >> > >>> For sure windows needs more reboots than linux does, but does this > >>> qualify as a quality grade for an OS? I have my doubts... > >> > >> this become quite OT... but if you are in the way of compiling a > >> video film (6 hours work) and you want to install an utility that > >> need reboot, you do what? > >> > >> jdd > >> > >> > > Well, > > > > although it is OT, I would probably save my work to disk, install the > > utility, reboot, reload my work and continue with my freshly installed > > utility. Admitteldly I never compiled a video, never do any work > > without regularly saving the status to disk, and never do system > > administration while I have valuable things that I do not want to > > destroy in front of me ;-)) > > > > Now, > > if you worked in X, then did some work on the text terminal > > (ctrl-alt-F2), then you returned and found your X to be so garbled > > that you cannot see anything, not to mention saving your valuable > > work, you do what? > > This happened to me. > > > > Perhaps use the kill command to shut down those apps and then restart X. > Another nice item instead of using the kill command from the CLI is to do cntrl +alt +esc. This results in the cursor changing to a skull and crossbones, at least in KDE, then you can just click on the app and kill it if it is not responding.
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