Re: getting back into X

[Elliot Lee <sopwith redhat com>]

On Mon, 14 Feb 2000, Jerry & Ellen Davis wrote:

> This is not strictly Gnome I suppose but I am using Gnome so here is I
> hope an easy question for someone.
> 
> I had a runaway process the other night that kept showing OK dialog boxes
> as fast as I could press the OK button. And the dialogs were on top, so I
> couldn't even see the text of a ps ux of the process to kill.
> 
> So I did a Ctrl Alt 1 to get to a console and login that way and kill the
> offending process.
>
> I couldn't figure out a way to then logout and then get back into my Gnome
> GUI session. I settled for a reboot rather than just turning the machine
> off or somthing equally as stupid.
> 
> Now the question is: is there a way of getting back into my GUI session?
> Or is how I would up doing it the way I should do it?

If meant Ctrl+Alt+F1 instead of Ctrl+Alt+1, then that switched you to
console #1, so all you have to do is switch back to the console that X is
running on (usually #7, requiring a Ctrl+Alt+F7 keypress).

-- Elliot
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