Public bug reported:
This evening, my wife's Edgy desktop machine experienced a hang of
gnome-panel. Alt-tab was still working, but the menus on gnome-panel
were frozen.
Thus, there was no GUI way of killing and restarting gnome-panel. As it
is my wife's computer, she does not understand the command line and thus
is incapable of issuing ctrl-alt-f1, sudo killall, ctrl-alt-f7 commands.
On a Windows machine, if Windows Explorer hangs (explorer is the
"shell"), the keybinding ctrl-alt-del will always work. This immediately
presents a dialog which allows Task Manager (the equivalent of system
monitor) to be launched and windows explorer to be killed. In addition,
Task Manager has the ability to run a simple command line, restarting
the Windows Explorer process.
So ideally, I would like Ubuntu to implement a system-wide ctrl-alt-del
hotkey (as this is a very well-known combination) which would allow the
user to start system monitor and thus kill the offending gnome-panel.
** Affects: Ubuntu
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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System monitor should respond to system-wide hotkey even if gnome-panel dies
https://launchpad.net/bugs/76214
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