[CLUE-Tech] Loging off as a user, recovering from a GUI crash

[Keith Hellman]

On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:35:19PM -0500, greg at knaddison.com wrote:
> I'm sure someone else has a better idea, but how about control+alt+backspace (or
> somesuch) which kills X and drops you back to wherever the distribution starts
> you off in the run level.

Depending on *where* the GUI defect is (that is causing the freeze up),
this may not work.  If it doesn't, then ctrl+alt+F{1,2,3,...} and 
 $ kill -TERM X
or
 $ kill -KILL X
depending on how gracious you want to be :^)

This should return your system to either the GUI login screen (if you
boot to runlevel 5), or the X user's console (if you start X by hand).

HTH
 

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