Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!crdgw1!uunet!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!gdt!brispoly!gould2!la_carle From: la_carle@sol.brispoly.ac.uk (Les Carleton) Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix Subject: Re: Killing hung DECwindows session Message-ID: Date: 29 Apr 91 23:10:39 GMT References: Sender: news@g2.brispoly.ac.uk (news user) Distribution: comp Organization: Bristol Polytechnic, Bristol, UK Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: ajt@resmel.bhp.com.au's message of 29 Apr 91 04: 25:55 GMT Just kill the process named by ps (-aux) as X (:0) or the like with a -9 and that will return you to the Xprompter (under 4.0 that is). It won't be gentle and you will probably have to go and clean up any of your processes that were running in the background of any terminals, but it does the job. ...Les... "Unofficially helpful" -- +---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+ | Les Carleton | la_carle@uk.ac.brispoly.cv (JANET) | | MCI#4 Bristol Polytechnic | "My Life - My Opinions - ALL MINE!!!" | | Brissle, England | "You're Tuned to Metropolis ... 109.1FM" | | la_carle@uk.ac.brispoly.cv| "UNIX troubleshooter" | +---------------------------+-----------------------------------------------+