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?
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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.