HOWTO restart your solidly frozen linux

so here’s the case, your screen won’t respond, you tried waiting, but nothing happened. Ctrl + Alt + Backspace gave up on you, it won’t work. Here’s what you’d want to do to softly restart your system without breaking anything, it’s fairly dangerous to restart your machine especially when it’s still trying to do something, like writing to memory or stuff. so try this.

hold down Alt and SysRq (print screen), then type in these letters REISUB. this will turn off your services, terminate all programs, and unmount your drives, then your machine will restart.

Fosswire said you should remember the keys as Raising Elephants Is So Utterly Boring.

HOWTO add the trash bin to your desktop

well this is a quick and short one.

alt+f2 then run gconf-editor.

go to

apps > nautilus > desktop 

on the right side look for this entry

trash_icon_visible

check the box. and you’re done. change trash_icon_name if you wish to.