29 Jun
2021
29 Jun
'21
11:52 a.m.
said J Leslie Turriff:
| Sometimes a program will die without deleting its X resources, | orphaning one or more windows. The program, of course, cannot be | killed; it's already gone. Use Ctrl-Alt-Escape* to tell X; put the | cursor on the orphan window and click. Poof!
Yup, an X classic ever since XFree86, alongside its bigger brother, ctrl-alt-bksp to kill X entirely. And it usually, though not this time, works. -- dep
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