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.
---- <control><alt><shift><backspace> simultaneously will kill X server
probably a good idea to figure out what is going on...check out /var/log/Xorg.0.log (.old if X server is restarted) for clues
Craig