> On my PC, X appears to have locked up. It's running what I think is
> AfterStep. I started xfontsel and poked around a couple of fonts, but
> now it's just sitting. It doesn't seem to respond to anything: the
> mouse, Alt+F2, Ctrl+Alt+BkSp, Ctrl+Alt+Del, or anything else I know of.
> I do NOT want to use the power switch to get out of this one! This
> system uses Red Hat 5.0.
>
> What can I do?
Update: I went back to the computer and found that X had shut down.
Apparently it buffered all of my input but decided to wait an hour to
process it.
I still want to know how to shut either X or the process down instantly.