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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