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? ---- allows me to inject an apparently utterly useless extra keypress in the process I suppose. ;-) Craig