Neo wrote:
On Fri, 2003-10-03 at 13:37, cr wrote:Way back in the days of RedHat 5 or thereabouts, whenever X siezed for any reason, I could kill it with Alt-Ctrl-Backspace and end up back in the command line.
This is Debian's behaviour also.
This is odd. I've never heard of such a thing. As someone else mentioned, perhaps this is a key combination that your BIOS has reserved for a reset, although I've never heard of such a BIOS.However, since I got more sophisticated hardware with an ATX power supply, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace turns the machine off (or reboots it), with consequent fscking of the drives, which is a pain.
I just had a sieze in X, and Ctrl-Alt-F? had no effect, Ctrl-Alt-Backspace was the only key combination that worked. Is there any setting that will restore its function of 'kill X but don't reboot the machine' or any other key combination that achieves that?cr
I did a google and found several people having the same problem; for example http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-48/0643.html -- Kent