> Is there any way to kill the X server without having to use any menus?
> (I screwed up my .fvwm2rc file and had to do a hard reboot... oops!)

Do you have any xterm's available?  If so, just do a ps and find the X 
server.  Then you can do a:

kill -9 (process id of X here)

and that should take care of it.

> p.s. I really like being able to use *real* Unix on my Macintosh...
> thanks for all your hard work guys!

Pretty cool ain't it ;-)

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                      ender@is.rice.edu
Consultant                                        Rice University
Information Technology Services                       Houston, TX