Re: How to kill X?

[Neo <netman1@home.nl>]

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.