dhk writes: > I have a new laptop with LXDE and XFCE4 installed for the desktop > environment. I boot to run level 3 and then run startx. When logging > out of the either desktop it never returns to the command prompt, > there's just a blank screen and I can not switch to an alternate > terminal. However, the Alt-SysRq EISUB does work and reboots the system.
Try Alt-SysRq-R, this should take keyboard control away from X so you can switch to the text terminals. Wonko