Peter Hutterer <peter.hutte...@...> writes: > [...] > the feature to zap is readily available and Ryan even went through the > effort of putting up screenshots and labeling them where to click to enable > this feature. IMO this is better than displaying a message about VT > switching
The reason that zapping was disabled by default is because it's too easy for some users to zap by accident. Instead of telling users how to re-enable zapping, which will let them to zap by accident in the future, we should tell them how to switch VTs and then kill X from the command line. > - which has some other issues as Alan pointed out. Yes, Alan raised a good issue earlier. I propose the following solution. The xmessage should say: "To shut down the X Window System, click the Shut Down (or similar) button or menu option on your screen. If that doesn't work, press Ctrl+Alt+F1, log in as root, then enter the following line: pkill -n X ; sleep 5s ; pkill -9 -n X" > We've already admitted that the change wasn't communicated well enough, so > having a short answer with a link to the howto may just help the next person > googling for it. Do you mean that Xorg should show an xmessage with a link to an appropriate instructional webpage? That would work too. But it's hard to start a web browser to view the link if, say, your mouse doesn't work. So I think showing an xmessage with pkill instructions would be better. Kind regards, -Jason _______________________________________________ xorg-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
