[arch-general] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing

slubman lists at slubman.info
Tue Mar 3 03:32:15 EST 2009


On Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:40:26 +0100, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net>
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 ?

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