On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, Jim Roland wrote about, Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-BKSPC and single
mode:
> Interesting...I never noticed that before. CTRL-ALT-F7 (I assume the next
> available VC at the system, which would normally be tty7) goes back into
> X.
>
Thats correct for a default system, i belive most distro's have 6 (a)gettys
defined in /etc/inittab, so alt F7 returns you to X.
>
> On Sun, 2 Apr 2000, Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 09:27:19 +0000
> > From: Richard Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: Jim Roland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-BKSPC and single mode
> >
> > On Sun, 02 Apr 2000, Jim Roland wrote about, Re: Disable CTRL-ALT-BKSPC and
>single mode:
> > > A1: There are several lines (comments and 1 configuration) in your X
> > > configuration (typically in /etc/X11/XF86Config, but you could always
> > > search for it with the locate command: locate XF86Config) which take care
> > > of this. It's not commonly disabled, therefore you have to edit the config
> > > file. Beware, if X windows does lockup, you will have no recourse but to
> > > reboot the system (hard reset), which can be very destructive to any
> > > unwritten/cached files. Look in your XF86Config file for the following
> > > line:
> >
> > Not quite, hitting ctrl-alt-F1, F2, F3, etc., will get you into a console,
> > from there one can login as root and kill the X server if it ever locks up.
> >
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Regards Richard
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