> --- Chris Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the best way to get out of stuck KDE desktop session > > > and restart KDE when something in Gentoo freezes the desktop > > > like that? > > > > Did you try Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? > > Thanks for the reply Mike and Chris. > > To funny. As I was logged-in via dialup reading Chris's response, I hit > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. This brought me back to what looked like the tail > end of my bootup sequence just before KDM starts when Gentoo first > starts up, but had a text login at the very bottom of the screen. It > stayed like that for about maybe 5 seconds and then switched to the KDM > login box. When I logged back in I noticed that the modem never > disconnected but nothing was running in the bottom of the desktop. >
Josh, I've had this happen also. Try changing the /etc/inittab default runlevel to 3 instead of 5. This takes you to a console when boot up instead of kdm. You log in and type startx and you're in KDE (or whatever you are using.) Setup like this, when I've had to Alt-Ctl-Backspace out of X it's always stayed at the console. You could also try Alt-Ctrl-F2 (or F3-F6) and go to a different console. >From their you can run top and kill some runaway process, or KDE itself if you need to. - Mark -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
