On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote:
> Way back in the days of RedHat 5 or thereabouts, whenever X siezed for any
> reason, I could kill it with Alt-Ctrl-Backspace and end up back in the
> command line. Very handy, since Linux is ~ 10^6 times more stable than X
> ;)
>
> However, since I got more sophisticated hardware with an ATX power supply,
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace turns the machine off (or reboots it), with consequent
> fscking of the drives, which is a pain.
>
> I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
> was the only key combination that worked. Is there any setting that will
> restore its function of 'kill X but don't reboot the machine' or any other
> key combination that achieves that?
>
> cr
>
Hi,
try loging in remotely and run '/etc/init.d/<gkx>dm stop'.
(Fill in your running favorite display manager)
Sincerely,
Jan.
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