Emergency exit from X to tty1

Ivan Avery Frey ivan.frey-H217xnMUJC0sA/PxXw9srA at public.gmane.org
Thu Dec 20 06:27:18 UTC 2007


Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Here's a useful hint I picked up on the Gentoo mailing list.  This is
> for those occasions when you get stuck in X, with X hogging the
> keyboard, and refusing to let you exit to textmode.  With a bit of
> setup, you can use the big "Power" button (YES!!! the "ON/OFF" button)
> to force a jump to textmode tty1.  Here are the steps...
 > ------------------------- snip --------------------------------------


Does holding the power button for 4 seconds force a shutdown in Linux? 
Will this hint change this?

Ivan.
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