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 To: 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 > >________________________________________________ >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