-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. > Sure! Use the key combination Ctrl-Alt-F1 which will switch you to a TTY console (plain text only here and any of the F1-F6 keys will work) now you can log in as root or as yourself if you prefer but you may need root privileges if you are going around killing processes. In case you don't know, you can find the process most easily using the command: ps aux|grep $process substitute the name of the program you think is froze. You will get back the PID of the process that you can use to kill it (kill PID). You can then use the key combination Ctrl-Alt-F7 to return you to the Xwindows session and see if it is usable again. If so you'll probably want to return to the root session and log out (use command exit or Ctrl-D). Scott -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF4vbc5mBKdb7VQEcRAnQ6AKCYJmzg3CdZTY2BwZZBz7FcluYMWACfZY2p 8lbLvFukDXzyqR37ocCSSNg= =uWXb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
