if you run into crashing situation, don't need to restart your machine. Try to open console by Ctrl Alt F1, log in from console, kill all gnome- shell then do
export DISPLAY=:0 gnome-shell --replace Comeback to your working gnome-shell by Ctrl Alt F7 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869408 Title: gnome-shell hangs when switching to a running VMWare Player Window in Activities menu To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-shell/+bug/869408/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
