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? > probably a good idea to figure out what is going on...check > out /var/log/Xorg.0.log (.old if X server is restarted) for clues > > Craig taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
