A real fast way out would be CTRL-ALT-Backspace. That will force X to
restart and take you back to the KDM login screen. (Assuming you started
up using 'kdm' and not startx, etc. .

Kevin

"Vaughn L. Treude" wrote:
> 
> Excellent!  That key sequence was just what I was looking for.  I guess
> telnet would have worked, too.  I've just configured the network, and I can
> "ping" it, so I guess that telnet should work.
> 
> Vaughn
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rod Roark <rod@sunsetsystems.com>
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
> Date: Friday, November 03, 2000 3:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Dumb question on KDE
> 
> >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
> >
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