On 2016-03-23, J. Roeleveld <jo...@antarean.org> wrote: > On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2016 13:42:26 +0000, Ian Bloss wrote: >> >> Don't know if anyone has mentioned this but you can always use the >> >> magic sysrsc key to get control of input back from X >> > >> > Yes, I mentioned Alt-SysReq-R several posts ago. >> >> You're probably right, the magick sysrq feature pretty much obviates >> the need to boot to console to protect against buggy X11 servers. But, >> it's fairly recent and Linux-specific. So, the boot-to-console trait >> (which evolved pre-sysrq -- and even pre-Linux, and has very little >> "cost") hasn't died out yet... > > Yes, but it Xorg isn't that buggy to warrant the inconvience of a console > boot > on a desktop/laptop.
Except I don't find it inconvenient to hit a couple keys if I want to start X. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! My Aunt MAUREEN was a at military advisor to IKE & gmail.com TINA TURNER!!