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I find the "darling" of the open source world to be crashing on me frequently. Im running a vanilla install of RH 7.2. It seems slow and sluggish compared to my windows 98 2nd ed...
But that aside, is there a clrt, alt del, function in linux when an application bugs out and freezes my desktop? I dont like cold booting from the power button...
In all fairness it may be my browser Konquer... I use Opera on windows and it works flawlessly.
I think he's actually asking "is there a tasklist feature in XWindows" - since that's what Ctrl-Alt-Del does in Windows 98 (if you only push it once, if you do it twice - it does a reboot)...
There's probably quite a few graphical versions of the "ps" command, which is essentially what you're looking for - but I think the easiest way to kill something which has locked X windows up solid is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill the X windows server, then you can restart it happily with a 'startx', or, if you're running something like XDM (i.e. you're machine boots straight into X without you having to start it manually), then X will restart automatically.
Thanks guys. All the replies were helpful. When my sys froze the ctrl alt del didnt work. Ill try the ctrl alt backspace next time.
As for opera on linux I used it a few months ago and removed it. The linux version seems to need to be improved in some minor areas before I use it again. Its been awhile though so maybe Ill check it out again.
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