On Fri, 2002-11-08 at 13:13, Nikolai wrote: > > well, a couple of times a screwed my system quite badly it simply froze, > and since I'm always in X Window envioronment 3 finger salute was the > only option to reboot, console wasn't accessable either (not that I know > a whola lotta things about how to recover with the command promt), so I > dunno, I better keep the salute alive :-) until I learn more about the OS >
I can be kinda tricky knowing how to recover from a busted X session... I always drop to a console, execute ps aux and see if there's anything "defunct" and then kill it if there is. Or you can try using Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill an X session... but if your system wont even respond to that then i'd drop to a console and execute killall X That will either kill X or a bunch of other stuff on your system hehe :) I'm not a big fan of the 3 finger salute, there's gotta be other ways to do it. Thats why most PCs come with reset buttons in the case.
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