On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:55:11PM -0400, Bryan Phinney wrote: > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 04:28 pm, Merlin Zener wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I was reading emails in Evolution, and something strange started > > happening - after deleting a message [or clicking on "next"] it would go > > to the previous message. And then, when I tried to open a message with > > some HTML and images etc in it, Evolution just hung. No matter what I > > tried, it just seemed locked. Wouldn't close or restore. I went looking > > for the "Task Manager" but suddenly found that the three finger salute > > brought up the Log Off menu! > > Anyway, logging off and back on again didn't help - Evolution was there > > again once logged in, still locked. Had to shut the machine down and > > restart to get things working again. > > > > SO: next time, what should I do? > > If you are running KDE, hit CTRL-ESC, that brings up the KDE system guard > process table and you can kill locked processes there. > > If you are in another wm, you can try to bring up a console, su to root and do > a ps -A to find the errant process id and just issue a kill pid. I haven't > used Gnome for a while so I don't know which keyboard shortcut brings up the > process list there.
Another option is xkill--is that still on the kde desktop? If not, launch a term and type "xkill" and the next thing you click on gets killed. Gotta be careful with that one. Todd -- Name that tune #2: Turn up the Eagles the neighbors are listening.
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