On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:40:26 +0100, Jan de Groot <jan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 01:23 +0000, Chris Bannister wrote: >> Its a feature not a bug :P [1] >> >> [1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=507746#p507746 > > Yes, and I hate it. Yesterday I locked up my window manager trying to > run compiz, and the only thing left to do was typing "su -", entering my > password and type "halt". No way to CTRL+ALT+BS the server. > > I'll hunt the commit down on git and revert it. This key sequence has > been standard since the first version of X, it's similar to the > three-finger-salute windows users are used to. It's not that someone > would press CTRL+ALT+BS by accident or something. > Just wondering : switching to a TTY (using CTRL+ALT+F{1..6}) and killing the X server from there doesn't work anymore ? -- slubman site: http://www.slubman.info/
