Hung Linux System? How to Escape to the Command Line and More | Linux Today

Hung Linux System? How to Escape to the Command Line and More

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Korbin Brown
Mar 30, 2021

It is not much fun when your Desktop hangs and brings on the fear of lost work, the inability to continue work, and more. But it need not always be like this. Knowing just a little extra—a few shortcut keyboard combinations and a few commands at the command line—will hopefully get you back up and running quickly. It does not always work, but it works often.

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Korbin Brown

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