What to do when KDE is unresponsive?

Kevin Krammer kevin.krammer at gmx.at
Thu Nov 2 22:07:18 GMT 2006


On Thursday 02 November 2006 23:01, D. R. Evans wrote:
> On 02/11/06, Jose Celestino <japc at co.sapo.pt> wrote:
> > I failed to understand what froze. Konqueror or KDE?
>
> Um... like I said... my desktop stopped responding to mouse clicks :-(

When you get into such a situation next time, can you try to kill the kwin 
process fromthe CTRL+ALT+Fx terminal and then restart it?

$ killall kwin
$ export DISPLAY=:0
$ kwin &

Cheers,
Kevin
-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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