Announcing Fedora 11 Alpha (blink)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Mon, 2009-02-09 at 18:35 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Adam Jackson wrote:
> > If, however, the thing that's burning all your CPU is merely some X app
> > and not the X server, then c-a-bs is just a faster method of getting to
> > something like the Force Quit dialog on a mac, except you kill
> > everything.  Seems like you'd rather have Force Quit to me.
> 
> You mean like KDE's Ctrl-Alt-Esc + click on the offending window with the
> pirate skull cursor? :-)

Which is fine as long as the offending app is on your current desktop
and isn't hidden. An overloaded system can take a long time to switch
desktops or bury a window, even assuming you know what you're looking
for.

Now Ctrl-Alt-Esc and *select* the app from a list, that I could go for.
(I know there's Ctrl-Esc which gets a process list, but that can also
take a long time.)

poc