On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 7:49 AM, Peter Hutterer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:45:21AM +0000, Jason Spiro wrote: >> Now that Ctrl+Alt+Bksp no longer defaults to killing Xorg, some people I've >> spoken with don't know how to manually kill Xorg. An idea: It would be >> helpful >> if, when you pressed Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, Xorg showed a message onscreen telling >> users: "To terminate Xorg, press Ctrl+Alt+F1, then log in as 'root', then >> type >> the following command: /usr/bin/killall -v -9 X" >> >> I don't know how you could show the message. Maybe you could use >> xmessage(1). >> It might not always work, but when it would work, it would be helpful. >> >> What do you think of my idea? > > http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/ >
How common is it to accidentally hit Ctrl-Alt-Backspace? Seems unlikely to me. -- Timothy Normand Miller http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/~millerti Open Graphics Project _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
