[NCLUG] Getting out from under X

[Doug Holland]

On Monday 28 May 2001 07:17 pm, rosing at peakfive.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 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).

Control-Alt-Backspace will kill X, which will bring you back to the 
console shell prompt or to the xdm/kdm/gdm login screen, assuming you 
didn't disable this using the XF86Config option.

Doug