Skype kills Gnome

[Jeff Vian]

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 09:38 -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote:
> On Thu, 24 Nov 2005, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 17:58 +0100, Albert A. Modderkolk wrote:
> >
> >> 2. Since Gnome is dead, I can't logout and login but have to reset.
> >> Is there some way to restart X and Gnome without hitting the Reset
> >> button?
> >
> > ctrl-alt-delete use to kill X - I think it still does.
> 
> control-alt-backspace kills X
> 

Only if the X server is not deadlocked.
The trick of using ctrl-alt-fX usually works for me even when nothing
else will

> > If not, you can switch to a console via ctrl-alt-F{1,2,3,4,5,6} which
> > should allow you to log in and kill X from a CLI.
> >
> >
> 
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