On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 10:05 -0700, Craig White wrote:
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 11:27 -0500, taharka wrote:
How do,
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 07:53 -0700, Craig White wrote:
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
I'm familiar with the "<control><alt><backspace>" combo, what does the added shift key do?
allows me to inject an apparently utterly useless extra keypress in the process I suppose.
;-)
OK, thought maybe there was an added benefit with it. Could have used some last week, as beagled went zombie & I had to pound <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace> repeatedly for ~5min in order to kill the X server :-(
Craig
taharka
Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.