<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2d8e86a1-acc4-4d91-8251-7b958c134e10/E9A5EA3B-109B-46E5-A83C-281CA8124BE8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://hehe2.net/linux-general/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-linux-users/" href="http://hehe2.net/linux-general/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-linux-users/" style="font-size: 11px;">hehe2.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://hehe2.net/linux-general/the-7-habits-of-highly-effective-linux-users/"><OL id="tfuf"> <LI id="kyi1">I have the “force quit” applet on my taskbar, if any app starts to act up just click on the “force quit” icon and then kill the app</LI> <LI id="aav8">If that doesn’t work, draw up a terminal and type <EM id="eslw">“ps -A” , </EM>and take note of the Process ID (PID) of the culprit app, then kill it. “kill PID”</LI> <LI id="nym3">Use the <EM id="sk66">“killall”</EM> command, for example, <EM id="jyqm">“killall firefox-bin”</EM></LI> <LI id="h1cp">If your whole GUI is frozen, and drawing up a terminal is impossible, then press CTRL-ALT-F1, this will take you to another terminal, and virtually a whole new session. From there kill the culprit app using step 2 and 3.</LI> <LI id="d:6.">If that doesn’t work, you might want to restart your GUI using the CTRL-ALT-Backspace combo. Beware, that this will kill all your GUI apps currently running<BR id="zq6j" /></LI> <LI id="d:6.">Invoke CTRL-ALT-F1 and do CTRL+ALT+DEL from here. This will not instantly reset your system, merely perform a standard reboot, it’s safe. (Assuming you want to restart and CTLR-ALT-F1 works)<BR id="sep6" /></LI> <LI id="vwbd">Finally if nothing works, don’t rush to the hard reset button, try to <A target="_blank" id="dm73" href="http://www.brunolinux.com/01-First_Things_To_Know/Skinny_Elephants.html">Raise a Skinny Elephant</A></LI> </OL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E9A5EA3B-109B-46E5-A83C-281CA8124BE8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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