Emergency exit from X to tty1

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> 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?

	Let me rephrase my first sentence. Does holding the power button 4 
seconds shut the computer off?
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