> 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.

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