Dumb question on KDE

[Vaughn L. Treude]

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
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>Sunset Systems                           Preconfigured Linux Computers
>http://www.sunsetsystems.com/                      and Custom Software
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>
>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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