another occurrence, same symptoms, last evening, was watching a youtube
video.

i logged in via ssh, attached to tmux, launched htop, and started
killing as you requested, in the following order, usually signal 15 but
sometimes 9 if so noted below, if the name is postfixed with -- that
means the process did not disappear from htop, --Z means the "S" column
in htop then showed a Z, ++ means it was immediately respawned:

pulseaudio
pavucontrol
bluetooth-manager
xclock
xterm (this one did disappear)
vncviewer
x-window-manager-- (ie twm)
accounts-daemon
bluman-applet
xterm--Z
firefox-esr
ssh
rtkit-daemon
systemd-udev++
systemd-logind++
ssh-agent--
systemd-timesyncd++
systemd-resolved++
cron
bluetoothd
systemd --user
polkitd
login -p

at this point the console blanked and presented a login prompt.  ctl-
alt-Fn still would not function, however i was able to login at the
console and attach to tmux.  xorg remained on the process list still
consuming cpu as evident in the htop display at this point:

0  [|                                          0.7%] Tasks: 37; 2 running
1  [|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||100.0%] Load average: 1.18 1.09 
1.18
Mem[|||||||||                            147M/1.90G] Time: 23:11:18
Swp[||                                  76.8M/1.86G]
  PID START USER       VIRT   RES  NI CPU%   TIME+  S Command
 1310 22:42 g          366M 35076   0 88.0 38:14.58 R /usr/lib/xorg/Xorg 
-nolisten tcp :0 vt1 -keeptty -a
 4761 22:43 root      26844  4248   0  0.0  0:07.73 R htop
    1 08:36 root       219M  5388   0  0.0  0:04.58 S /sbin/init
 4922 23:04 root      27516  4688   0  1.3  0:01.89 S htop
 1371 22:42 g         30084  3112   0  0.0  0:01.20 S tmux new -d
 1316 22:42 g         48492  1596   0  0.0  0:00.68 S x-window-manager
 1490 22:42 g             0     0   0  0.0  0:00.50 Z xterm -bg black -fg white 
-rightbar -xrm *charClass
 4683 22:42 g          105M  4484   0  0.0  0:00.34 S sshd: g@pts/5
  257 22:42 root      78440  8432   0  0.0  0:00.27 S 
/lib/systemd/systemd-journald
  539 22:42 messagebu 50208  2084   0  0.0  0:00.13 S /usr/bin/dbus-daemon 
--system --address=systemd: --
 1372 22:42 root      61440  4136   0  0.0  0:00.12 S sudo -H -uG -s
 1338 22:42 g         50012  1312   0  0.0  0:00.11 S /usr/bin/dbus-daemon 
--syslog --fork --print-pid 5
 4684 22:42 g         29312  7552   0  0.0  0:00.10 S -bash
 1400 22:42 g         29324  2440   0  0.0  0:00.10 S -bash
 4850 23:04 g         61440  4180   0  0.0  0:00.10 S sudo -H -uG -s
 1251 22:42 g         29280   228   0  0.0  0:00.09 S -bash
 1971 22:42 g         29336  1040   0  0.0  0:00.09 S -bash
 4924 23:09 g         29312  7600   0  0.0  0:00.09 S -bash
 1347 22:42 g             0     0   0  0.0  0:00.08 Z /usr/bin/ssh-agent 
x-window-manager
 4727 22:43 root      28128  6480   0  0.0  0:00.06 S /bin/bash
 4887 23:04 root      28092  6472   0  0.0  0:00.06 S /bin/bash
  534 22:42 syslog     252M  1004   0  0.0  0:00.03 S /usr/sbin/rsyslogd -n
 4803 22:59 systemd-r 70592  5292   0  0.0  0:00.03 S 
/lib/systemd/systemd-resolved
 4814 22:59 systemd-t  138M  3200   0  0.0  0:00.03 S 
/lib/systemd/systemd-timesyncd
 4651 22:42 root       105M  7004   0  0.0  0:00.02 S sshd: g [priv]
 4779 22:54 root      45484  4024   0  0.0  0:00.02 S /lib/systemd/systemd-udevd
 4780 22:54 root      70564  6112   0  0.0  0:00.02 S 
/lib/systemd/systemd-logind
 4818 23:03 root      76688  3696   0  0.0  0:00.01 S /bin/login -p ---p -- \u 
--noclear tty1 linux
  681 22:42 root      25600     4   0  0.0  0:00.00 S /sbin/dhclient -1 -4 -v 
-pf /run/dhclient.eth0.pid
  712 22:42 root      72280   356   0  0.0  0:00.00 S /usr/sbin/sshd -D
 1287 22:42 g          4632   168   0  0.0  0:00.00 S /bin/sh /usr/bin/startx
 1309 22:42 g         22628   408   0  0.0  0:00.00 S xinit 
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc -- /etc/X11/xinit/xser
 1337 22:42 g         45688    72   0  0.0  0:00.00 S /usr/bin/dbus-launch 
--exit-with-session --sh-synta
 1519 22:42 g         82724   812   0  0.0  0:00.00 S /usr/lib/bluetooth/obexd
 2354 22:42 g          183M   368   0  0.0  0:00.00 S 
/usr/lib/dconf/dconf-service
 4723 22:42 g         21220  3556   0  0.0  0:00.00 S tmux set status 0; set 
visual-b on; set display-t 9
F1Help  F2Setup F3SearchF4FilterF5Tree  F6SortByF7Nice -F8Nice +F9Kill  F10Quit

i resumed killing:

9: x-window-manager--Z
dbus-daemon --system --address=systemd: --nofork
dbus-daemon --syslog
sshd
dhclient
sshd -D
dbus-launch --exit-with-sess
dbus-daemon --nofork
(sd-pam)
xinit--
startx--
9: xinit

occasionally during the above batch of kills i checked whether ctl-alt-
Fn might work yet, and they didn't, however at this point now they *do
work* (xinit and startx both disappeared now tho xorg still present and
consuming ~90% cpu).  resuming kills:

xorg--
9: xorg

xorg finally gone now.

tried to re-launch xorg, failed.
tried apport-collect 1757299, failed, needed python3-launchpadlib.
installed python3-launchpadlib.
tried apport-collect 1757299, failed to launch a browser to authorize with 
launchpad.
left box running and grabbed some sleep and breakfast.
observed /var/crash contains only .lock with same date&time as 
/var/log/apport.log from last evening.
installed gpm, w3m, and links2.
apport-collect 1757299 succeeded.
submitted this comment.

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