Hadn't tried it with control as well. I could try that too when occasion arises.
Randy Stapilus www.ridenbaugh.com Northwest politics and public affairs WA, OR, ID Public Affairs Digests On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 5:23 AM, David Fleck <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, 23 Jul 2012, Randy Stapilus wrote: > > Running Mint 7 Gloria ... > > > > I've read about Alt + SysRq + R E I S U B ... but I haven't been able to > > get that to work. (I've seen some reference online to that option being > > disabled on Mint.) > > > > Likewise Alt + F2 then running kill ... but I haven't been able to get as > > far as bringing up the terminal. > > Caveat: never used Mint, don't know it from Adam. But does Ctrl + Alt + > F2 get you a terminal? > > It might not - if the system is sufficiently wedged, you won't be able to > wrest control back from the X server. But that's what I've used for the > past 15 years or so on SuSE and Slackware. > > -- > David Fleck > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
