death key combo

[Rick Stevens]

On 03/29/2014 01:30 PM, Mike Wright issued this missive:
> 03/28/2014 12:47 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>> On 03/28/2014 11:29 AM, Mike Wright issued this missive:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> f18
>>>
>>> Just had an inexplicable (to me) event occur.
>>>
>>> Accidentally typed "ctrl-alt-l" which caused a logout from my runlevel
>>> 5, but did NOT shut down the running processes.
> <snip />
>
> Thank you Joe Zeff and Rick Stevens.
>
> Your responses took me down a path and am pretty sure that I used up a
> pair of glasses but that path opened up a whole new level of usability
> that I never knew was there.
>
> Joe: magic sysrq key on my old Dell laptop turned it into a stand-alone
> with external everything (it faces the back wall where I don't have to
> look at it ;D
>
> Rick: my X session was screwed up.  I can ctrl-alt-l to my heart's
> content and everybody can log in without killing anybody else's session
> or the virtuals (router, mail, db, web, ... (family happy now; me too :)
>
> Fedoristi, you're the best!
>
>
> Ancient tech to the rescue!!!  Woo Hoo

Glad you got it sorted. Probably a good idea to tag this thread SOLVED
if it is, indeed, solved. :-)
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