Re: those problems where the easiest thing to do seems to be to reboot...
> 1) you 'cat' a file you shouldn't in the console mode. before you know
> it everything on the commandline becomes an unreadable mess of ascii
> characters you didn't know you had.
try `reset` perhaps. You might not see the characters in correct ascii,
but it should work. Maybe ctrl+l would work too, but I think reset is a
better bet. I think there is another way but I can't think of it off hand.
> 2) X crashes (hasn't for a while actually) and dumps you in a grey
> screen with a mouse pointer and nothing else. (That would be running
> unstable, helix-gnome, enlightenment and gdm with mozilla to crash it).
> I've tried restarting the gdm daemon but that doesn't work.
ctrl+alt+backspace
or ctrl+alt+f1 (f2, f3, ...), log in, `ps aux | grep x` and kill whatever
X is stopping you. If xdm is running, it will restart X anyway (afaik).
-nicole
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