24 Mar
2017
24 Mar
'17
12:43 p.m.
On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Rick Stevens ricks@alldigital.com wrote:
Killing gnome-shell will not necessarily free the machine up and make the GUI work as it is a significant component of the desktop
It won't. If you unceremoniously kill off gnome-shell, the desktop no longer works at all.
and the real solution is to restart your desktop session somehow (perhaps by killing your session manager) or reboot.
In some cases there may be another way. Try pressing ALT-F2. If you get the "Enter a Command" window, enter "r" and then ENTER. That will restart gnome-shell. Sometimes this works for other sorts of desktop hangs as well.
--Greg