On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 06:44 -0800, Larry Kelly wrote:
I have Fedora6 with VIA chipset onboard video and Gnome. Many of the installed applications will freeze the display screen, and mouse. When this happens is there a Gnome keyboard shortcut that will give me access to a shell prompt, so that I can kill the offending process, or restart X windows. Right now, my only option is to turn the power off.
If your keyboard is still being paid attention to, you've a couple of simple options:
You can CTRL ALT F1 over to a text console, log in and issue commands.
You can CTRL ALT BACKSPACE to restart the X server.