On Feb 17,  4:11pm, Patrick Welche wrote:
> Subject: Re: More Window managers, and other stuff.
> > Furthermore, can someone tell me how to quit X Windows if you ever get
> > left with a blank screen and no xterms, and no way to bring any up (ie
> > the mouse no longer brings up menus on the backdrop)?
>
> I think ctrl-alt-backspace might do it.

Nope, I can't exactly remember myself but its something like ALT+PRINT-SCREEN
which switches the keyboard back to text mode (whilst leaving the display
switched in). Then you can do ALT+F1 to get back to a text console and kill X.

Cheers

Rob