On Fri, Mar 24, 2017 at 11:28 AM, Rick Stevens <[email protected]> wrote:
> Killing gnome-shell will not necessarily free the > machine up and make the GUI work as it is a significant component of > the desktop > It won't. If you unceremoniously kill off gnome-shell, the desktop no longer works at all. > and the real solution is to restart your desktop session > somehow (perhaps by killing your session manager) or reboot. > In some cases there may be another way. Try pressing ALT-F2. If you get the "Enter a Command" window, enter "r" and then ENTER. That will restart gnome-shell. Sometimes this works for other sorts of desktop hangs as well. --Greg
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