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It would appear that on Sun, 04 Jul 2004, Matt Hansen did say:
On Sun, 2004-07-04 at 14:14, javac@mail.com 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?
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