How to implement alternate zap key idea

[Igor Mozolevsky]

2008/9/24 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:

> FWIW, I tend to kill X not with ctrl-alt-bs but by going to a non-X
> console with ctrl-alt-F2 and sudo pkill Xorg. I suppose that's a bit
> Linux/FreeBSD-specific, of course. sshing in from another machine also
> works well.

BTW, you can also kill it by switching to the terminal you ran it from
(ctrl+alt+f1 usually) and just ^C-ing the running process... Obv. this
requires you to have started X manually...


Cheers,
Igor :-)