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Hey there. I was just wondering what the best way to recover from a fullscreen program (usually a game) when it freezes? Something similar to Ctl+Alt+Del on Windows. Fullscreen games have the tendency to steal the mouse as well so something that could get around that would be great.
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you can almost always use ctrl+alt+f2..f6 to switch to a tty and kill the offending process, or use loginctl to kill the whole graphical session, if nothing else works.
Last edited by TarsolyGer (2019-10-15 05:18:10)
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Check if you can setup a keyboard shortcut for killing a process.
On KDE Plasma the default is Ctrl+Alt+Esc then click the window you want to kill. Since the application/game is full screen, any click should "hit", no need to see/move the mouse.
If that doesn't work, I'd go for what TarsolyGer already suggested.
Edit:
If even switching consoles that doesn't work, maybe you can ssh into the machine and kill the process that way.
Last edited by gerald82 (2019-10-15 07:48:02)
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Having Multiple desktops/viewports and switching between them is another way.
I've bound it to ctrl-alt+arrow
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