On Tuesday 31 March 2009 12:56:38 Anders Rayner-Karlsson wrote: > * Giancarlo Niccolai <gc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> [20090331 12:20]: > > it may be educated enough to try it. But it is not like that an X > > session hang so bad that you have to ctrl-alt-bs it will allow you to > > CAF1-6 at all, or will let you to do anything meaningful with it (i.e. > > bash may not be able to get the resources to start). When you HAVE to > > CABs, it's because you CAN'T CAF1-6. > > > > (There was my two cents, so don't expect me to join in this convo; I > > just wanted to correct your assumption that you may CAF1-6 away a > > situation in which you have to CABs, which is wrong, as another poster > > pointed out). > > IIRC, and I believe that was pointed out in this thread as well, is > that these keypresses are handled in the same way by the same part of > the X server. If C-A-Bs works, so will C-A-F2 to drop you at a vc. and in this thread was also pointed: "When something starts to eat all resources, you can kill it (with whole X server if it's not the X server eating all). You definitely have no time to switch to vt, log in and kill it..." > Through past experience, I have never found an instance (since moving > from XFree86 to Xorg) where the Xserver was wedged in a way that > switching to a vc did not work, but C-A-Bs did. I have seen plenty of > X lockups (Xorg intel driver issues in F10) in the last few months and > not a single one of those were resolvable by C-A-Bs. you have just different user experience -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
