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 To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us 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 > >________________________________________________ >See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. > >Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss