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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