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.