[98788] in RedHat Linux List
Re: X freeze and StarOffice 5 install
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Tue Nov 10 17:39:38 1998
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1998 16:11:13 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com, Tony Nugent <Tony.Nugent@usq.edu.au>
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Tony Nugent wrote:
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>
> (1) X freeze
> ============
>
> Is there an elegant way of regaining control of the keyboard when a X app
> crashes (see below) and leaves the X console frozen and the keyboard in an
> unusable state in raw mode?
CTRL-ALT-F1 can switch you to the main console, normally.
Then at least you don't have to telnet in to kill things.--
Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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