Killing a process when desktop hang

[Anderson Manly]

Ctrl-Alt-F1 will bring you to a text login (F1 - F6 are configured this way). When you're done killing your processes, you can go back into Gnome by hitting Ctrl-Alt-F7 (Default for xwindows in Ubuntu)

-Anderson

----- Original Message ----
From: Frank McCormick <fmccormick at videotron.ca>
To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
Cc: Ubuntu Help and User Discussions <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>; H.Haines Brown <brownh at hartford-hwp.com>
Sent: Monday, June 26, 2006 10:12:00 PM
Subject: Re: Killing a process when desktop hang

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

-- 
Cheers

Frank


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