get back to terminal from "killed app"

[Grizzlly]

20 December 2024  at 17:55, Liam Proven wrote:
Re: get back to terminal from "kill (at least in part)

>On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 at 21:03, Grizzlly via ubuntu-users
><ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
>>
>> I was running do-release-upgrade (22.04>24.04) & watching kaffeine at the same
>> time, (upgrade was going to take 7 hours on slow BB)
>
>I don't know "kaffeine" but Google says it's a media player.

Amongst other features, I use VLC as my media player,Kaffeine has a narrow but 
specific use on this box

>That was... not a wise move.

Correct, having a seven hour download ahead of me I wanted to do "something" 

On the wider point of the question, Kaffeine does at random times, block all 
(most, see later) system interaction

Alt+Tab does nothing
Escape does nothing
Numeric keys do nothing
Mute does nothing
Ctrl+Alt+Del does nothing

Kaffeine carries on functioning

But Alt+F1-6 works as intended, (opens a terminal)

Killing Kaffeine only stops it but does not return control

so far my only "out" is open a terminal and shutdown / reboot

any ideas I missed?

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