How many different ways can you stop a frozen or runaway process? Assume it has a window (which is, of course, not updating).
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How many different ways can you stop a frozen or runaway process? Assume it has a window (which is, of course, not updating).
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OK, it has a window, so you’re running X right? In that case, the One True Way…
ctrl-alt-esc
See the skull and crossbones where your mouse cursor was?
Use it.
PS I did that once on a root window (er… plain X desktop…) when I was a newb. Almost had a heart attack.
Funny you should mention that, killing the root window. It’s come up twice recently - once in that a recent distro I installed (perhaps suse 10.3 beta) sets an X variable to disable ctrl-alt-backspace (which kills the server) which I thought odd. Then, not an hour later, right in the middle of an editing session, sure enough, I accidentally hit it!
Also, see my post here for my answer (which includes xkill).
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