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. -- (This PC runs FC4, my others FC5 & FC6, in case that's important to the thread) Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
