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A comment on Ask HN: I miss CTRL+ALT+DELETE, what's the Linux equivalent?.

Re:Ask HN: I miss CTRL+ALT+DELETE, what's the Linux equivalent? by verdverm on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:12PM (#34395136)
top or htop in the terminal
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Re:Ask HN: I miss CTRL+ALT+DELETE, what's the Linux equivalent? by Curiositry on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:17PM (#34395174)
Do you know of a more low-level solution for when when my system is frozen, and the keystroke to open terminal (and run htop or "killall APPNAME") doesn't do anything?
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Re:Ask HN: I miss CTRL+ALT+DELETE, what's the Linux equivalent? by verdverm on Sunday January 15, 2023 @07:41PM (#34395341)
Try ctrl+alt+f1 to switch to the first terminal (leave desktop)

ctrl+alt+f7 to go back to desktop

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Re:Ask HN: I miss CTRL+ALT+DELETE, what's the Linux equivalent? by opensores on Sunday January 15, 2023 @08:24PM (#34395670)
this will work only if it's Xorg that has crashed.

For a kernel panic or lockup I think it's a combination roughly similar to:

1. Ctr-Alt-PrintScreen

2. continue to hold Alt

3. R-I-S-U-B as a sequence, to make certain things happen and like syncing the file system

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Re:Ask HN: I miss CTRL+ALT+DELETE, what's the Linux equivalent? by zscoops on Monday January 16, 2023 @09:39AM (#34401063)
After you get to tty using ctrl alt F. killall sends a TERM signal by default. You could send a KILL signal using "killall -KILL APPNAME". You could also run top using the nice command: "nice -20 top" in order to get the highest priority possible for the top process.
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