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

[Kevin Cullis]

On Sun, 2003-12-14 at 23:50, Jed S. Baer wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Dec 2003 14:20:39 -0700
> Kevin Cullis <kevincu at orci.com> wrote:
> 
> > When some bad things happen to my CPU, like the GUI freezes and I use
> > the CNTL-ALT-F3 to get into the non-GUI area to fix things (and the
> > ALT-F7 to get back), I sometimes want to just "kill" the user and get to
> > the logon screen. So,
> > 
> > 1. What process do I kill or what would I do as root to not have to
> > reboot the machine but just get back to SUSE's or other distro's logon
> > screen?
> > 2. If I wanted to restart an app from root or a term window, what
> > process would I go through to restart it/them?
> 
> Do you mean you want to restart one or more applications you were running
> before having to kill off the Xserver?
> 
> Since it sounds like you're booting to runlevel 5, are you running GDM or
> KDM? Xsm maybe? I'm not saying that any of those will be helpful, but it
> will help everyone here to get some more info about what you're running.
> There is the concept of X "sessions". But you would have to have
> checkpointed your session prior to killing things, so it doesn't sound as
> if this is helpful.

I'm running GNOME and my wife runs KDE on runlevel 5.  I don't know what
checkpointing is.

> 
> Otherwise wouldn't you just start them the regular way?

Yes, but I've learned about various "options" that Linux provides. I'm
just looking for more.

> 
> > 3. Where would I find a listing of the apps that I can start from a term
> > window?
> 
> You can start any app you have from a term window. If it's an X
> application, it will just run under X. Otherwise, it will run in that term
> window.

But the question is: where to find which apps are installed and what is
the command, besides typing app &.  I've been able to kill gnomepanel if
there is a problem there, but I'm looking on how to kill GNOME and KDE
from CNTL-ALT-F2 to get to a new logon screen.

Does this help?

Kevin