{"id":601,"date":"2009-04-12T21:14:31","date_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2009\/04\/12\/killing-x\/"},"modified":"2009-04-12T21:14:31","modified_gmt":"2009-04-13T01:14:31","slug":"killing-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2009\/04\/12\/killing-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Killing X"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Ubuntu it used to be that ctrl-alt-backspace would kill X (the backend of the various graphical user interfaces on Linux). In an aim to be user friendly this is now disabled by default. This can be a real pain if X locks up, you can&#8217;t kill it nor change to a console.<\/p>\n<p>On Debian and Ubuntu you can install the dontzap command which will allow you to kill X:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">sudo apt-get install dontzap<\/pre>\n<p>Then run dontzap:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">sudo dontzap -d<\/pre>\n<p>Or you can the following section to your \/etc\/X11\/xorg.conf file (which is what the dontxzap command does):<\/p>\n<pre style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Section \"ServerFlags\"\n        Option  \"DontZap\"       \"False\"\nEndSection<\/pre>\n<p>See <a href=\"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\">Alberto Milone&#8217;s<\/a> blog for more info:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=335\">http:\/\/albertomilone.com\/wordpress\/?p=335<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Ubuntu it used to be that ctrl-alt-backspace would kill X (the backend of the various graphical user interfaces on Linux). In an aim to be user friendly this is now disabled by default. This can be a real pain if X locks up, you can&#8217;t kill it nor change to a console. On Debian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/2009\/04\/12\/killing-x\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Killing X<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,19,22,30,40,41],"tags":[204,304],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-debian-linux","category-ireland","category-linux","category-picture","category-travel","category-ubuntu-linux-2","tag-dontzap-linux-ubuntu-x11-x-debian-killx","tag-gui"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timony.com\/mickzblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}