accessing shell when gnome locks up.

[taharka]

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.