If the system is responding to the keybaord you can hit (for example) Alt-Ctrl-F2 to get a text console and then kill the offending process. Otherwise if the box is on a LAN, telnet in from another machine and do it. -- Rod ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunset Systems Preconfigured Linux Computers http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ and Custom Software ---------------------------------------------------------------------- On Fri, 03 Nov 2000, Vaughn L. Treude wrote: > 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 From wlindley@wlindley.com" Also possibly useful - Ctrl+Alt+Esc turns the cursor into a "Kill" cursor which will terminate whatever you click on. \\/ http://www.wlindley.com