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09-29-2005, 02:06 AM	#1
Haiyadragon Member Registered: Sep 2003 Location: Gorredijk, Netherlands Distribution: Arch Linux Posts: 400 Rep:	Occasional X crashes, how to recover Once in a while X will get stuck in some sort of loop (99% cpu) and the only way I can recover is by ssh'ing to the box and give it a nice -KILL.. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace don't work because apparently all keyboard input is handled by either X or the WM/DE you're running. Is there a way to send a key combination (like "killall -KILL X" to anything other then X or something relying on X to run?

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