From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 12 21:47:56 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A5151065742; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:47:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Received: from shell0.rawbw.com (shell0.rawbw.com [198.144.192.45]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D6FA8FC14; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:47:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eagle.syrec.org (stunnel@localhost [127.0.0.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by shell0.rawbw.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id o6CLltRj061184; Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:47:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from yuri@rawbw.com) Message-ID: <4C3B8D8B.1050105@rawbw.com> Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:47:55 -0700 From: Yuri User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.1.10) Gecko/20100708 Thunderbird/3.0.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: kde@freebsd.org Subject: How to kill process if X is frozen during fancy KDE4 windows effects? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:47:56 -0000 I run KDE4 with nvidia card. KDE4 desktop effects are on, so when window comes back from the icon it goes through some motion slowly blowing out from the icon. Very rarely, but screen freezes during such motion. Mouse still moves, window that was blowing out of the icon stays in the shape of curved triangle. Keyboard is frozen, Ctrl-Alt-FN doesn't switch to black terminal. I can only connect to the host from outside and kill the unfortunate X-client that caused the hang. After this it works just fine again. My question is: what to do if there is no other host on the net? How to kill the process? Yuri