Re: A further ctrl-alt-backspace mystery.

[akonstam trinity edu]

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:34:57PM +0300, Gilboa Davara wrote:
> Last I time I checked my inittab, Ctrl-Alt-Del reboots the machine.
> 
> "ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now"
> 
> Gilboa
> 
> On Tue, 2005-09-13 at 17:29 +0200, Rudolf Kastl wrote:
> > theres a difference between ctrl+alt+del and ctrl+alt+backspace
> > 
> > one sends the machine into init 3 per default and the other one restarts X
> > 
> > regards,
> > Rudolf Kastl
> > 
How did we get on Ctrl-Alt-Del . We were talking about
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.

I have never seen a Linux machine reboot when Ctrl-Alt-Del is pressed
when in X (gnome or KDE), although it must be possible to make it work
bu fooling around with the keywords.
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