Send CRTL+ALT+BKSP thru SSH

**jeremy1701** · 08-25-2005

Regardless of the reason, I find myself needing to know how to send CRTL+ALT+BKSP via SSH. X keeps freezing as I'm messing with it, and right now the way I deal with it is ssh in, type init 3 and then init 5. It works, but I feel like that's sloppy. Is there a way to force X to restart (ie, CRTL+ALT+BKSP) over SSH?

Thanks,
Jeremy

**lakerdonald** · 08-25-2005

I assume that you're ssh'ing with X Packets forwarded?

**jeremy1701** · 08-25-2005

Well.. Not always. Sometimes I'm sshing on a Windows box using Cygwin. I'm sure it about X packets forwarding on Cygwin, do you know?

**lakerdonald** · 08-25-2005

Originally Posted by jeremy1701

I'm sure it about X packets forwarding on Cygwin, do you know?

what?

**jeremy1701** · 08-25-2005

/me puts down the booze.

I'm not sure about X packets forwarding on Cygwin, do you know?

**lakerdonald** · 08-25-2005

If you have X installed on Cygwin, then it should be fine, otherwise, I don't think there would be any way to send the ctrl-alt-bkspace to X

**anomie** · 08-25-2005

I may be missing something obvious here, but you're using

Code:

ssh -X user@host-name

right?

Closing the ssh session and re-opening it does not solve the problem?

**anomie** · 08-25-2005

Assuming answer to above is "no", you might be able to get away with just restarting the xdm service. Quicker than changing runlevels back and forth.

**jeremy1701** · 08-25-2005

anomie,

How do I restart the xdm service from the command line? You mean something like

Code:

/etc/init.d/xdm restart

?

Jeremy

**anomie** · 08-25-2005

Hi, yes that's what I would try. (I checked on my SuSE install and xdm takes a 'restart' argument.)

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