Myriam Schweingruber schrieb: ... >> In Jaunty the useful CTRL-ALT-Backspace combination for killing a crahed >> X-server has been discontinued, much to my regret. See discussion: >> >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgCtrlAltBackspace/Discussion >> >> Do you think we should keep it that way, reinstate CTRL-ALT-Backspace, or >> preinstall Dontzap (which allows switching the feature on and off)? > > please, don't change the current, just advise people they can install > dontzap if really necessary. > The whole point of disabling Ctrl.+Alt+Backspace is to avoid having > non registered KDE sessions and subsequent data loss by users who just > kill without thinking, and that's unfortunately the majority of our > users in K/X/Ubuntu. Advanced users who really have to kill the X > server can use Ctlr+SysRq+k so the current KDE session can be saved, > or install Dontzap. These changes have been made by Xorg and adopted > by the Ubuntu core devs, period.
Thank you Myriam, also WaVeR. Good points; I tried Ctlr+SysRq+k and it works. So I'll just mention this in the documentation. I don't see any need for Dontzap now. Cheers, Theo -- Ubuntu-ch mailing list Ubuntu-ch@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ch
