GNOME Shell

  1. Bug #869408
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 869408

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James Gregory-Monk (jamgregory) wrote : Re: gnome-shell hangs when switching to a running VMWare Player Window in Activities menu

I've experienced this issue as well. The temporary workaround to resolve it is to drop to tty1, log in and do:

killall -9 gnome-shell

This (should have!) the effect of re-loading the GNOME Shell, and everything should start working again.