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Old 01-05-2008, 03:23 AM
Stefaan A Eeckels
 
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Default Re: AIX 4.3 screen froze on RS/6000 Please Advise

On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 14:33:45 GMT
"Gary R. Hook" <nospam@nospammers.net> wrote:

> >>Or first you can try Control-Alt-Backspace. That's the key sequence
> >>to kill the X server.

> >
> > That doesn't work with AIX's X server,

>
> Yes, it does (by default via xinit/startx), unless you start the
> server with the -T option. The X display manager may do this
> for the user.


That'll teach me to read the manual instead of trying it
out on my machine. But it allows me to confirm that out
of the box, the X server is started with the -T option.

Seems like the OP will need to use kill after all.

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