[gentoo-user] Any way to kill frozen X/KDE?

[Peng]

Unfortunately, X or KDE (I don't know which one...) freezes fairly 
often... I can, of course, hit the reset button on the front of the 
computer, but that's not good a good thing to do. Is there anyything 
else I may be able to do? I don't want to lose data...

Ctrl-Shift-Backspace or whatever it is does not work, nor does hitting 
Ctrl-Alt-F2 or something to switch to the command line. Seems like 
either keyboard input is ignored, or the stuff projected to the screen 
completely freezes. Probably the second, since I can still move the 
mouse around. Just can't click anything, and icons and all don't change 
when I mouse-over them.

Hey... That gives me an idea. Think it could be that just video output 
is forzen, so I could hit Ctrl-Alt-F2 and log in as root and reboot or 
something?

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