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I found this out by luck (partly because I also use Max OsX).
CTRL-ESC - brings up a proces table where you can kill individual processes
CTRL-ALT-ESC - makes the cursur into a skill and cross bones where you can point at a rogue application and kill it
or you can do it the long-hand way: open a console window, type 'xkill' and point the skull and crossbones at the app you want to kill.
on the (very) rare occasions that the whole shebang freezes up, you can re-start the x server by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace - but in my experience this is seldom required.
If you're using KDE, run kcontrol. Under "Accessibility" select "Keyboard Shortcuts". It should open to the "Shorcut Schemes" tab by default. Within that tab there's another tab group, which should open to "Global Shortcuts" by default. Scroll down that list to the "Desktop" section and selct "Show Taskmanager". There's a button below that you can click to bring up a dialog to change the keyboard shortcut associated with the "Show Taskmanager" action. Simply press "Ctrl+Alt+Del" and voila. Now next time you press Ctrl+Alt+Del it will bring up kpm :-). And of course you could always simply run "kpm" manually ;-P.
If you're using a different WM/DE, I'm sure you can use its config tool to change keyboard shortcut settings, and have that key sequence run gtop, or whatever floats your boat.
Originally posted by tk31337 If you're using KDE, run kcontrol. Under "Accessibility" select "Keyboard Shortcuts". It should open to the "Shorcut Schemes" tab by default. Within that tab there's another tab group, which should open to "Global Shortcuts" by default. Scroll down that list to the "Desktop" section and selct "Show Taskmanager". There's a button below that you can click to bring up a dialog to change the keyboard shortcut associated with the "Show Taskmanager" action. Simply press "Ctrl+Alt+Del" and voila. Now next time you press Ctrl+Alt+Del it will bring up kpm :-). And of course you could always simply run "kpm" manually ;-P.
If you're using a different WM/DE, I'm sure you can use its config tool to change keyboard shortcut settings, and have that key sequence run gtop, or whatever floats your boat.
awesome tips u guys! on thing that i'll add is that under the configure menu, under the SHORTCUT SCHEMES, there's on option to set schems from windows, macos, etc. pretty neat. now alt+tab is back in action too!
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If you hit Ctrl-Alt-F1 (or F2 through 6), you'll be dropped to a virtual console where you can type commands to kill the bad app. To switch back to the GUI, hit Ctrl-Alt-F7.
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