Raising Skinny Elephants Is Utterly Boring

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There you are, staring at a crashed Gnome session, CTRL-ALT-BKSPC does nothing. ALT-CTRL-F1 won’t bring you to a terminal where you could cd to /etc/init.d and restart gdm. In short, your choices seem to be limited to holding down the power button and chancing file system corruption or nothing.

But wait! There’s two more options that you may not have known about!

More info here

You are probably wondering what on earth the thread title has to do with this article :smiley: Well read on and you will find out…

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Very Nice, thanks alot mega!

Its having to rely on skinny elephants that would really suck!

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LOL that is brilliant.
However, just to play devil’s advocate and to be the pain in the arse I am: What happens if you need to press ‘Fn’ (the function key) in order to get to the coveted ‘SysReq’…? will that work? I suppose only trialing will tell… :eek: Oh, well… another new thing learned today… :wink: