On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 10:05 -0700, Craig White wrote: > 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. > > ;-) OK, thought maybe there was an added benefit with it. Could have used some last week, as beagled went zombie & I had to pound <Ctrl><Alt><Backspace> repeatedly for ~5min in order to kill the X server :-( > Craig taharka Lexington, Kentucky U.S.A.
