Killing a process when desktop hang

[Frank McCormick]

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:53:58 -0400 (EDT)
brownh at hartford-hwp.com (Haines Brown) wrote:

> What I would normally do is use a keybinding to bring up an xterm from
> the keyboard, run $ ps aux, and then kill the hung process. What
> keybinding by default opens a terminal in ubuntu so that I might do
> that?

   I believe it's configurable...I don't recall what the default is as I rarely
use the keyboard. I keep xkill on the panel for these situations.


> 
> I don't recall every encountering an entire hung desktop, but if I
> did, I could kill the X server from the keyboard. Not sure in ubuntu how
> to do that.


   Ctrl-Alt-Backspace should do it UNLESS it is changed in xorg.conf

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Cheers

Frank