Re: [Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs

2014-05-13 Thread Sebastian Silva
BTW, as a workaround I use when all I need to restart is X, I switch to a virtual terminal (ctl+alt+f2) and type "killall X". That will avoid the full reboot cycle and restart Sugar. Regards, Sebastian El mar, 13 de may 2014 a las 7:23 AM, Jon Nettleton escribió: On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:04

Re: [Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs

2014-05-13 Thread Jon Nettleton
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 2:04 PM, Walter Bender wrote: > > > > On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, TONY ANDERSON > wrote: >> >> At some point, the ctl+alt+backspace signal to restart was dropped. This >> was >> a very handy way >> to get out of dead-ends caused by starting too many activities. >> >

Re: [Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs

2014-05-13 Thread Walter Bender
On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 11:18 AM, TONY ANDERSON wrote: > At some point, the ctl+alt+backspace signal to restart was dropped. This > was > a very handy way > to get out of dead-ends caused by starting too many activities. > > What I would like to do is have this signal show a screen similar to the

Re: [Sugar-devel] restart by ctl+alt+bs

2014-05-12 Thread Sebastian Silva
Hi, The Ctl-Alt-Backspace thing was dropped upstream with xorg, the graphical server. It can be restored to its original function, by means of a configuration on xorg.conf (look for "DontZap" option). In order to get what you want, more or less, and without any coding, you'd need to use a Disp