accessing shell when gnome locks up.

[taharka]

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

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