accessing shell when gnome locks up.
Charles Curley
charlescurley at charlescurley.com
Mon Feb 26 21:56:27 UTC 2007
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 06:44:42AM -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 you have another computer handy, try:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/5405
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