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.
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(This PC runs FC4, my others FC5 & FC6, in case that's important
to the thread)
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