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On 12/25/11 16:54, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: |
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> On 12/25/2011 09:08 PM, CJoeB wrote: |
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>> Happy Holidays, Everyone, |
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>> To lead into the problem I am experiencing, I will let you know about an |
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>> issue I've been having with my desktop (writing this from my laptop). |
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>> Every once in a while, when the screensaver kicks in and then, the |
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>> monitor goes on power save mode (something inherent to the monitor), the |
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>> screen locks (I have not set it to do this) and the only way, I can get |
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>> the computer going again is to reboot it by holding down the power |
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>> button. This is annoying, but has not caused an issue until today. |
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> You shouldn't do that. There's the SysRq key combination to safely exit |
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all programs, umount the filesystem and reboot. |
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Yeah, *know* I shouldn't do that! :-) However, you just "taught" me |
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something I didn't know. |
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> You can Google for it. Wikipedia also has an article: |
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key |
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> (The "SysRq" key is usually the "PrintScrn" key.) |
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Thanks for this! |
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Regards, |
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Colleen |
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