On Wed, Jul 25, 2012 at 9:47 AM, Randy Stapilus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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] >>
If you have ssh running you can often ssh in even if X is frozen. Just log in from another machine/phone and kill the offending browser. Bill _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
