F11: xorg decision to disable Ctrl-Alt-Backspace
Michel Salim
michel.sylvan at gmail.com
Tue Mar 31 15:56:16 UTC 2009
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at clemson.edu> wrote:
> On many machines now, the power switch invokes a shutdown dialog,
> instead of simply powering the machine off with no warning--see the
> GNOME power-management applet's dialog. On my wife's Dell Dimension, I
> haven't even been able to locate a reset button--the only thing on the
> front panel available to press is the power button. No reset button on
> any of my laptops, either.
>
But you can normally do a hard power-off by keeping the power button
pressed for 4 seconds; this cuts off power rather than generating an
ACPI event.
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