[old thing to reply to, but seriously...]
We should not come from a place where we ASSUME X will fail,
...
We should assume X will work.
eh? give me a call when the world is a perfect place, there is no crime,
hardware never fails, and all firmware + software has Zero bugs in it.
Until that
@hamish: Yes, this is an old a thing to reply to.
I found this in 2 seconds of Googling. http://www.ubuntugeek.com/enable-
ctrl-alt-backspace-in-ubuntukubuntu-10-04lucid-lynx.html#more-5216
I'm surprised that ALT+Prnt Scrn starts an app (it didn't in old
versions) but I'm sure Google can tell
This is just my 2 cents, but I feel I should express it.
In my view, restarting the X Server is not an essential function. It's
a hack, a terrible hack, to compensate for poor programming of X. We
should not come from a place where we ASSUME X will fail, and thus
enable Ctrl+Alt+Backspace by
Ctrl + alt+ backspace it's a excelent way to deal with a problem in a program.
Without it, the user will just restart the system. That's better? We should
make a BSOD too.
That key combination it's not very common and just a few users will make that
accidentaly.
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Enable Ctrl - Alt -
I fully agree. Xorg does not detect my monitors refresh rate correctly
and quite often I have to use the ctrl-alt-backspace combination
immediately after booting to force it to try again (sometimes several
times).
Furthermore if a user is pressing three keys simultaneously they should
be assumed
