Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Problem

[Ben Steeves]

On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 13:59, Jim Cornette wrote:
> Ben Steeves wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-10-26 at 00:43, Jim Cornette wrote:
> > 
> > 
> >>What about making the start here (windoze key) log one out instead of 
> >>killing X suddenly?
> > 
> > 
> > Because sometimes nothing works *but* to kill X with
> > Ctrl-Alt-Backspace.  Logging out via GNOME is the norm, but when the
> > system goes south, it's better to be able to kill X than to have to
> > reset the computer entirely.
> 
> That is what I use *ctl-alt-backspace* for. It was sounding to me that 
> this is becoming a regular way to logout of X.
> 
> I used this feature to get ouyt of a lot of earlier misbehaving 
> problems. I don't need to use it too often now. (Can't remember X 
> lockups recently.)
> 
> 
> > Sure, I could ssh in from a different box and kill X, but that's a bit
> > of a pain if you don't happen to have another box.
> 
> It sounds like overkill to ssh in. ctl-alt-backspace away.

Um, did you read the beginning of the thread?  The original poster and I
*can't* use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill X because it causes our machines
to hibernate.  We're trying to figure out what's causing that.

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