accessing shell when gnome locks up.

[Tim]

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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