I have the situation that my Ubuntu session is frozen such that I cannot move my mouse or type. I managed to stop all heavy tasks by accessing a tty with Ctrl+Alt+F2, so technically it should recover to a usable state.
However, the screen is still frozen, so I suspect it would be a good idea to force compiz to restart.
It is safe to kill compiz and then restart it without any of my applications/terminals to be killed?