Comment 46 for bug 869408

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nldquy (nguyenledinhquy-yahoo) wrote : Re: gnome-shell hangs when switching to a running VMWare Player Window in Activities menu

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