On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 09:05:37PM +0200, Lars E. Pettersson wrote: > On 04/17/2009 08:45 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote: > >X11 already eats Ctrl+Alt+Del. > > Well, it isn't removed, as ctrl-alt-backspace is proposed to be (it was > that I meant wit "zap"), it shows a dialog. ctrl+alt+del has no special status within X. It's simply a keybinding that can be grabbed by the desktop and used to display something. ctrl+alt+bs now has an identical status. > Not sure what happens if X have crashed and one presses ctrl-alt-del > though, perhaps someone else who have experienced this could tell us? > Will it automatically shut down the system after 60 seconds, even though > X is not responding? That depends on the state the system is in. If X has crashed and exited, ctrl+alt+del will reset the system as if you were at the console. If X has stopped drawing on screen but is still processing the event loop, a dialog will pop up and shut the machine down after 60 seconds. If X isn't responding to anything, ctrl+alt+del will do nothing. > So in a situation where X have crashed, and neither ctrl-alt-del (if > that is the case) nor ctrl-alt-backspace works, one have to press the > reset button or power cycle the computer, a, in my humble opinion, very > bad and brutal way of solving a problem that was elegantly solved with > ctrl-alt-backspace. I don't /think/ (but will defer to people more familiar with this part of the server) that it's likely that you'll end up in situations where ctrl+alt+del won't work but ctrl+alt+bs will. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
