Re: troubles with KDE(?)

From: Robert M. Riches Jr. (spamtrap42_at_verizon.net)
Date: 03/17/04 

Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 02:32:28 GMT

In article <pan.2004.03.17.00.05.56.585918@home.net>, Sonny Ha wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 19:49:13 +0200, Marko Nurmenniemi wrote:
>
>> How did you kill the application?
>>
> In KDE, there's a keyboard shortcut to kill a window, I configured it to
> Ctrl + Alt + K. After pressing these keys, I was able to kill the window.
>
>> There might have been a process alive or stuck that seemed to freeze the
>> X (windows server in your machine).
>>
>> I hope you understand that pressing reset is the last resort?
> Yes, I do, but as I said, there was no response to the keyboard, though
> the mouse was still moving. There was almost nothing else I could do.
>
>> Do you know how to use the text mode in other consoles? "ctrl-alt-F1"
>> -F2 etc.
> Ummm, I just tried pressing these keys (ctrl-alt-F1) and you know what
> happened?... I was dropped to a console where I was asked to login. I
> logged in but didn't know what to do to return to X :( I tried startx but
> it said there was already a display openned... In the mean time, there was
> still music playing in the background 'cos I was listening to some music
> before being dumped here. I again had no choice but Ctrl-Alt-Del to
> reboot. So... what's the purpose of this console and how can I get back to
> X from there?

To get back to the X session, it would normally be
ALT-CTRL-F7, but that won't be useful if the X server's
comatose or dead.

>From the text console, you can look around at what processes
are running, you can kill problematic processes, do cleanup
or repairs from processes that went astray, etc. With luck,
you could kill off the old X session's stuff, which would
allow you to start up a new X session without rebooting.

Good luck.

Robert Riches
spamtrap42@verizon.net
(Yes, that is one of my email addresses.)

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