Re: Linux, the final decision

From: Bill Unruh (unruh_at_string.physics.ubc.ca)
Date: 02/01/04 

Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2004 01:55:13 +0000 (UTC)

The Ghost In The Machine <ewill@sirius.athghost7038suus.net> writes:

]In comp.os.linux.advocacy, Kadaitcha Man
]<nospam@rainx.cjb.net>
] wrote
]on Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:18:56 -0800 (PST)
]<Tz1Rj7KMs69r7DC4016CUK6Sa3qq9Nz0@tinytotsemporium.com>:
]> Ed Murphy wrote:
]>> On Fri, 30 Jan 2004 22:29:56 -0800, Kadaitcha Man wrote:
]>>>>[2] The user hits CTRL-ALT-Backspace, if it's not been disabled.
]>>>> The X server detects this and commits murder-suicide.
]>>>> Most applications die quietly. A few die noisily.
]>>>> A very few might survive, anticipating a server restart.
...
]>>
]>> Obviously, it's intended for those rare situations where the X server
]>> is so borked that you actually /want/ to kill it (and the apps) with
]>> extreme prejudice. At least it's not something you're all that likely
]>> to hit by accident
]>
]> It is. I have an MS Office keyboard and the backspace key is about half
]> a centimetre away from the delete key. And now that I know about it...

And why would you hit alt-ctrl-del, since that is either inoperative (
and thus there is no reason to hit it) in X or it shuts down the whole
machine-- X and all.

Oh, maybe you have been so trained in Windows that you keep hitting
alt-ctrl-del to try to log out.

]>
]> [snip]
]>
]> Thanks for that.
]>

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