-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 It would appear that on Sun, 04 Jul 2004, Matt Hansen did say: > On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 14:14, javac@xxxxxxxx wrote: > > > 2.) from the gnome desktop ctrl-del-backspace (or ctrl-alt-backspace, > whatever > forget right > > now) usually causes some sort of weird sleep mode or something. > > 2a.) why doesn't it work as expected and just bring me to an old style > prompt, > sans x-windows? > > Ctrl-Alt-BckSpce is used to restart the X Server not kill it. If you want > to get > to a text prompt > either login on a VT (Ctrl-alt-Vt[1-6]) or run 'init 3' as root to switch > to run > level 3 from your > X session. 'init 5' to start up X again. > > > 2b) is there an alternative to this altered form of the three finger > salute? > > Not sure what you mean. You think Ctrl-Alt-BSpce is an altered form of > Ctrl-Alt-Del? They perform two different functions. c-a-b restarts X, > c-a-d restarts the computer. Hmmm perhaps ctrl-alt-backspace restarts X when you start up in runlevel 5 but when you start up in runlevel 3 and use startx to fire up the gui, ctrl-alt-backspace causes X to shut down while complaining about losing the connection to the x server, and dumps you back in runlevel 3 in the still running shell from which you did the startx command. At least thats how it's always worked for me. I'm guessing that if there isn't a parent shell to fall back to when X is reset, it automatically restarts. But that if its a child process of a shell, the parent shell resumes instead? - -- | ~^~ ~^~ | <?> <?> Joe (theWordy) Philbrook | ^ J(tWdy)P | \___/ <<jtwdyp@xxxxxxxx>> ############################################################## # You can find my public gpg key at http://pgpkeys.mit.edu/ # ############################################################## -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFA6PGrRZ/61mwhY94RAqqzAJ9q1dTO5yZ6EfDurrrTLVD2bVce8ACfb2d1 qcPAywR2K6UUDtB6cWfVGH4= =Rljv -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
