satelliteuser083 Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 (edited) I've just had a crash in OpenOffice Writer and was unable to find any way of recovering from the situation, other than rebooting the system (LE2005) :o . In the dreaded Windoze I would have called the Task-Manager via Ctrl-Alt_Delete, killed the aplication and a reboot would have been unnecessary. Does a similar facility exist in Mandrive? I use KDE. Edited March 31, 2006 by satelliteuser083 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted March 31, 2006 Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 In order to kill applications, you have several options: - Run xkill (If your desktop is still repsonsive) and click on the application you want to terminate. - Press CTRL+ALT+Backspace for killing your current graphical session. The system Kernel will keep on running. - Press CTRL+ALT+F2 for switching to a command-line environment. Log in, then run "top". It will list all running tasks. Every task has a PID number. Kill the application with "kill <PIDNUMBER>", then go back to the desktop with CTRL+ALT+F7. Good luck. :) PS: Openoffice has a recovery function. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
satelliteuser083 Posted March 31, 2006 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2006 Many thanks. Having control Is a great feeling :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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