On Monday 04 June 2007, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: > 2) I have no clue how to find out what's causing the lockup. I'd > love to, because I usually lose a bunch of work in the crash.
top will tell you which process is hogging the resources and also let you kill it with the 'k' hotkey My X also locks up from time to time due to kde-type issues, the usual cause is konqueror and invaribaly I have to kill and restart kdeinit or even '/etc/init.d/xdm restart' in extreme cases. But I use enlightenment as the wm so that might not necessarily hold true for you. When using kde as the desktop, I've also had this trouble with kicker alan -- Optimists say the glass is half full, Pessimists say the glass is half empty, Developers say wtf is the glass twice as big as it needs to be? Alan McKinnon alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list