[NCLUG] Getting out from under X

[R P Herrold]

On Mon, 28 May 2001 rosing at peakfive.com wrote:

> Is there a key sequence to get out from under X when it hangs?
> Something to do with pdf documents occasionally freezes everything on
> my screen except I can move the mouse around. Since I can't kill
> anything or bring up a window, much less type in a command, I end up
> having to reboot the machine (I don't have a network set up).

If at a local console, I use:  Ctl-Atl-F2 , log in, and kill
the offending process -- then Ctl-Atl-F7 back into the X
console -- if remote, just ssh in and kill it.

-- Russ