[OpenIndiana-discuss] OI-151: test drive

[Brian Hechinger]

On 6/22/2011 3:35 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:33 PM, Brian Hechinger<wonko at 4amlunch.net>  wrote:
>> On 6/22/2011 3:30 PM, Alex Lam S.L. wrote:
>>> Is there a way to literally kill the GUI? I run into this accidentally
>>> today:
>>>
>>> # svcadm disable gdm
>>>
>>> Which throws me out into the console. The only down-side being that if
>>> the desktop freezes, I don't think I get this line typed out, let
>>> alone executing it...
>>>
>>> Thanks for the information.
>> Does Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kill the X server when it's hung?  It should.
> I actually tried that as it was the first suggestion coming back from
> Google - didn't seem to do anything. Not even switching to a blank
> screen like Ctrl+Alt+F1 does.

That's very odd.  Has the defaults for the X server on OI been changed 
to ignore that I wonder?

-brian