John Carter wrote:
Since X hasn't ever frozen solid on me (...)
On my system(s) X and various other parts of the system, particularly
the Kernel did freeze regularly. It might have been my rather
complicated setup but features like C-M-Bs and killall X are useful in
these cases. Unfortunate
> As a desktop user, the computer crashes and loses my work. I really
> don't care whether it is the kernel, X or Open Office that failed
Agreed.
> As a desktop user, one thing I definitely do not want is a combination
> of keystrokes that will guarantee that I lose my work. History is all
> v
> If Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is bad then Ctrl-Alt-Delete must be worse
> because it will reboot your whole computer.
Ctrl-alt-del doesn't work on the X11 console. On the text consoles, I'm
quite sure I'll be leaving it as it is.
Volker
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On Fri, September 30, 2005 10:31 am, John Carter wrote:
> On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Stephen Irons wrote:
>
>> Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>>
>>> I'm afraid the ctrl-alt-bacjspace has been a feature of Linux X11 for
>>> well over a decade, and at times a very useful one too.
>
> I dare say it has been.
>
> I'
On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Stephen Irons wrote:
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
I'm afraid the ctrl-alt-bacjspace has been a feature of Linux X11 for
well over a decade, and at times a very useful one too.
I dare say it has been.
I'm also sure I read about it a decade ago.
What I probably stored in my mi
If Ctrl-Alt-Backspace is bad then Ctrl-Alt-Delete must be worse
because it will reboot your whole computer. If you don't like that
idea, then comment out this line in /etc/inittab:
# what to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed
ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -r -t 4 now
Personally I am leaving m
Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Ah yes, cntrl-shift-backspace AND alt-backspace under emacs is delete
last word. Somehow my mind munged the two and did cntrl-alt-backspace
to do delete a word _harder_.
Just goes to show that editor operating systems are evil... ;))
I'm afraid the ctrl-alt-bacjspa
On 9/29/05, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Last night I was using my laptop ssh-ed into my new home server. I was
> > setting up NFS, and needed to restart the networking stuff on the
> > server. Hey! why did my ssh session suddenly freeze?
>
> Strange, I am routinely logged into so
> Last night I was using my laptop ssh-ed into my new home server. I was
> setting up NFS, and needed to restart the networking stuff on the
> server. Hey! why did my ssh session suddenly freeze?
Strange, I am routinely logged into some box via ssh and do a rcnetwork
restart. I've never had a prob
> Ah yes, cntrl-shift-backspace AND alt-backspace under emacs is delete
> last word. Somehow my mind munged the two and did cntrl-alt-backspace
> to do delete a word _harder_.
Just goes to show that editor operating systems are evil... ;))
I'm afraid the ctrl-alt-bacjspace has been a feature of L
IMO point 1 is yet another reason *not* to use emacs, but let's not start
all that again (:
As for the ssh stuff - I thought it was just Lyttelton harbour that they
were targetting (:
Apart from the Arkansas Public School Computer Network, the 5000 hits in
my logs are from China, Japan, India and
While we're admitting silly things we've done
Last night I was using my laptop ssh-ed into my new home server. I was
setting up NFS, and needed to restart the networking stuff on the
server. Hey! why did my ssh session suddenly freeze? After a few
moments of confusion it suddenly dawned. ssh.
John Carter wrote:
I typed in control-alt-backspace.
Zap.
A default feature.
Of X.
No, Xfree86-server, or Xorg-server.
Just like control-alt-plus & control-alt-minus.
Would you leap out of a tractor and into a car without at least browsing
through the user manual?
Weird.
No. X
Now that was singularly irritating.
For some reason, the shock of the consequences has made me I forget why, I
typed in control-alt-backspace.
Zap.
X rebooted.
Everything on my screen, two emacs sessions with many buffers, multi term
with about 15 tabs open in various useful places, a mail
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