accessing shell when gnome locks up.

[Craig White]

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.  
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<control><alt><shift><backspace> simultaneously will kill X server

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