On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:32:33AM -0500, Timothy Normand Miller wrote: > 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.
it's common for some, uncommon for others. depends much on your usage of the desktop, how fast and/or precise your finger movements are, certain desktop features, etc. for example, GNOME has shortcuts for virtual desktop switching on ctrl+alt, they increase the chance that bksp may be hit while cltr+alt is down. I still manage to accidentally zap my server about once a week or every two weeks at least but that also depends on how many apps and sometimes even which apps I have open. Cheers, Peter _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
