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shadebug
05-19-2003, 05:13 PM
two problems from the noobalistic me...
first off, I prefer using gnome but recently the panel disappeared, which causes problems to say the least... any ideas?

next, now that I'm in KDE Tux Racer crashes every so often, just the game though cos xmms is still going in the background, problem is that it's fullscreen. Now, I can ctrl alt f2, but that leaves me at a command line with music playing,I need to know how to get rid of that window and if it involves ctrl alt f2,I need to know how to get back to KDE

once I've sorted that out I can get to why hardly any programs'll compile on my system, but that's a different matter

nobody mentioned that gratuitous polling wasn't allowed by the way...
shadebug
05-22-2003, 08:38 AM
surely somebody can help
joelc
05-22-2003, 08:53 AM
There are two ways (at least) that I can think of to stop this:

1. When you get to the console after you ctrl alt F2, type 'top'. This will open a program that displays running processes. Find the the tux racers process and note the pid number. type k, and then the pid number to kill tuxracer. Now ctrl alt F7 to go back to X, and you should be okay.

2. instead of ctrl alt f2, try ctrl alt f1. This should bring you to the console from which x was started. Use ctrl C to stop the current process (X windows), and when you get the $ prompt back start X again.
shadebug
05-22-2003, 11:07 AM
sounds good

any help with my gnome poblem?
MxCl
05-22-2003, 11:15 AM
Are you using KDE or gnome you mentioned both?

Also CTRL-BACKSPACE kills the x server so you can then start a new session, this is sometimes the easiest way.

Otherwise do as joelc said, killall tuxracer may work (but only if the process is called tuxracer..)
shadebug
05-22-2003, 02:29 PM
I think i can figure out the pid

As I say, I'd prefer to be using gnome but the panel isn't appearing so I'm forced to use kde
f'lar
05-22-2003, 06:22 PM
It's been a while since I had to do it manually, but the i believe the name of the gnome panel is just panel. So if you add panel & to the appropriate file it should be there again. But remember, it's been a couple years (and two versions of gnome) since I've needed to mess with it. I don't even remember exactly which config file it's located in (.xinitrc, .xsessions, or something else), it's been too long since I've had to mess with that.