While playing an audio in totem, the mate desktop crashed. I couldn't switch to a console like I use to be able to do with ctrl-alt-F{n} - seems that is gone is from CentOS. I couldn't open a terminal by right clicking on the desktop. I was able to open a folder, navigate to /usr/bin and open gnome-terminal that way and issue the shutdown command. Since switching to virtual consoles no longer seems to work, what is the proper way to deal with rebooting a system when the window manager with all its menus crashes? CentOS 7 -- -=- Sent my from my laptop, may not be able to respond timely