Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3653 mails)

[Rodd Ahrenstorff <rahrenstorff@xxxxxxxxx>]

Brian W. Carver wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there a howto/faq that describes all the different key combinations 
> a person can use within SuSE/KDE when something is going wrong to try 
> to avoid pressing the restart button on one's computer (or cutting the 
> power).  I know that CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE is usually supposed to take 
> one out of a KDE session and back to the login page but this doesn't 
> always seem to work. I ask because I had Realplayer freeze up on me 
> today while using Mozilla and I could move the mouse around but 
> nothing I clicked on would respond at all. (The mouse pointer was 
> different, and was pointing to the top right rather than its usual top 
> left.) I tried all sorts of key combinations to get ANYthing to 
> happen, but nada. Eventually to get control of my computer again I 
> just pressed the restart button. This stinks. I know how to look at 
> the processes that are running with ps -e and type kill [# of some 
> process goes here] to kill an unresponsive process, but in this case I 
> couldn't even get a shell up to type in.
>
> What strategies do you use to avoid rebooting?
CTRL-ALT-ESC will bring up the 'kill' process skull/bones.  Simply move 
it ontop of your offending app and click...it's gone.