Mike A. Harris wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Jim Cornette wrote:
>Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 17:33:27 -0400
>From: Jim Cornette <redhat-jc(a)insight.rr.com>
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>Subject: Re: Radeon 9200 Attempt to free NULL pointer
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> I noticed that you mentioned ctl-alt-backspace as a means of exiting
>the X server.
>
>I thought that this was suposed to be used only when X was misbehaving
>and could not be closed down any other way.
>
>Have there been graceful items added to exiting via ctl-alt-backspace or
>is it still a bad way to exit X?
You essentially kill all running apps. You may lose unsaved
work, config files, data files of various applications if they
don't shut down cleanly. It's rare that problems arise mind you,
but not worth risking it if you can shut down cleanly.
Thanks!
I'll keep logging out with the logout button then. The bug report
mentioned logging out with ctl-alt-backspace and I thought that it
immediately killed X. No grace on exit.
Jim