Emergency procedures when your monitor dies

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Author: JT Smith

LinuxJournal: “If you are running Linux, or most UNIX variants, and you have taken appropriate precautions, you probably have a simple workaround. This workaround
is also useful for the times when your X server crashes, and you need to clean up the carcass. I am writing this on my desktop computer in spite of the
fact that my monitor just died. I’m using my laptop as an X terminal. The purpose of this note is to tell you how to do that.”