Dumb question on KDE

[Vaughn L. Treude]

David:
Thanks for your answer.  I'm an old Unix guy, so I'm familiar with the
"kill" command.  The problem is that, on the incident in quesiton, I
couldn't get the cursor to behave to the point that I could start a terminal
window.  I was hoping there was a hotkey to do this, or maybe I could set
one up.   Or maybe there's some hotkey sequence to kill KDE, so I can
restart it without rebooting the box.  I tend to prefer GUI's (because an
old fart like myself has trouble remembering all the magic commands and
options) but sometimes there's no substitute for the command line.
(Maybe I just need to keep a terminal window open somewhere at all times,
just in case?)

Vaughn

-----Original Message-----
From: sinck@ugive.com <sinck@ugive.com>
To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
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Date: Friday, November 03, 2000 11:17 AM
Subject: Dumb question on KDE


>
>
>\_ Hello:
>\_     Another quick question.  I'm using KDE on my Mandrake box and I
>\_ generally like it.  (I don't want to provoke any flame wars about the
"best"
>\_ user interface!)  I just want to know-- if a misbehaving application
hogs
>\_ cycles to the point that the mouse is malfunctioning, how do I bail out
of
>\_ it without pushing the "reset" switch?  Skimming through the "KDE in 24
>\_ Hours" book I have, I don't see anything to that effect.
>
>run top in a term window, figure out which process is stealling
>cycles, then kill it either through top ('k', I believe) or from the
>command line 'kill'.
>
>David
>
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