Comments on: How a virtual console can keep you from losing work

By: Reign Of Seven

Reign Of Seven — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 01:42:25 +0000

Thinker: You are an Idiot.

10 years of Running Linux I’ve had 3 Crashes.
THREE Crashes in TEN Years

5 years of Running Windows I’ve lost count of how many times its crashed. I do remember a day when it crashed over 20 times in one day.

By: Get back the ctrl-alt-backspace behavior in Ubuntu

Get back the ctrl-alt-backspace behavior in Ubuntu — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 15:38:32 +0000

[...] unusable. Of course you could always go to a virtual terminal (as shown in my article “How a virtual console can keep you from losing work“) but for new users this is more of a hassle than just being able to hit [...]

By: gokudomatic

gokudomatic — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 09:34:12 +0000

this won’t always work. I mean, you may have to log as root and do a kill -9, depends on which app you have to kill.

By: Beef

Beef — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:49:28 +0000

I’m still wondering WHY I have lost 2 minutes of my life reading a post about $~ kill PID in TWO THOUSAND AND NINE…

By: Jack Wallen

Jack Wallen — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:48:33 +0000

MKR: You are correct. The version I needed was within Firefox. And yes, when I restarted OO it recovered what what I had last saved. And yes, you are correct about not needing the Ctrl key to return…it’s just habit for me. ;-)

By: MKR

MKR — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 12:02:13 +0000

OO does recover documents, but the article clearly indicates that the version in Firefox was more important.

I’m sure when Mr. Wallen opened OO back up, he was pleased to see its document recovery window. I think the point of this article was not for these particular applications, but to provide a general guide to killing an application when it causes the windowed environment to seize up.

Also, you don’t need the control key when you’re out in console land. The control key just tells the desktop environment to let go of the screen.

By: Thinker

Thinker — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 07:50:43 +0000

I have two thoughts after reading this article:
1. There is no such thing, that Linux is more stable than Windows. Maybe in 1998 it was true.
2. Instead of using OpenOffice I would suggest use of Microsoft Office. I don’t remember when, but it was long time ago when MS introduced document recovery after crash. And this is only one of hundreds advantages over OO.