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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Escape a hung X session
From:       Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2009-05-27 22:33:14
Message-ID: 200905280033.14330.volkerarmin () googlemail ! com
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On Donnerstag 28 Mai 2009, Mick wrote:
> On Monday 25 May 2009, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Montag 25 Mai 2009, sean wrote:
> > > Does anyone know a way to kill an X session when it locks up?
> > >
> > > CTRL-ALT-Backspace and anything else that was tried does not kill the
> > > session.
> > > Sadly we have to pull the power to get back in.
> > > There is not other system at the location to get in remotely.
> > >
> > > 		Thanks
> > > 		Sean
> >
> > a) you use a 'new' xserver and got screwed by the 'new' feature that you
> > can not zap anymore (thank you Redhat!):
> > Section "ServerFlags"
> >          Option "DontZap" "no"
> > EndSection
>
> How can one specify this feature without an xorg.conf?  Can it be defined
> in the fdi file?

you don't you create a xorg.conf.

but you just find another reason why that change by redhat people was really, 
really idiotic.

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