On Tuesday, March 22, 2016 04:51:52 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2016-03-22, Neil Bothwick <[email protected]> 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. Even with proprietary nvidia drivers. -- Joost
