Ubuntu :: Frozen Computer / Get It Back To Life?

Dec 3, 2010

Any ideas how you unfreeze a computer?

Last night I decided to download a few games using a different tool to the Synaptic Package Manager. I can't think of its name at the moment but it gave a brief description of each app with a tiny screen-shot. I'd like to find out its name but the only thing that will move is the mouse pointer.

I left the computer alone last night thinking that I'd given it too much to do and thought that it would resolve itself when I woke up. Sadly the computer is still frozen with only the pointer moving around the screen.

Is there any way that I can get the computer back to life?

Or is my only option to hit the Off Button?

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