Re: Crashed X - Hard re-boot

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer@icfo.es>]

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 17:29:13 -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:
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> Dave Walker escribió:
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> > That raises the question, though, about what happined to terminal 1.
> > Why won't it respond, and why does it appear to be comatose???
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> > Dave W.
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> If you don't want this to happen then you should use gdm or xdm or kdm,
> then you just start gdm and terminal 1 is free ;-)

I think another advantage of using [xkg]dm is avoiding the CTRL-ALT-F1,
CTRL-Z attack against the X screen lock (if you leave your computer
unattended and somebody else could walk along and use the keyboard). 

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Regards,
          Florian