Re: Suggestion: Link metacity and gnome-system-monitor

[Chris Chabot <chabotc xs4all nl>]

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Chris Chabot wrote:

> That would be easely done on a distribution level. On linux take a 
> look at /etc/inittab, specificly this part:
>
>    # Trap CTRL-ALT-DELETE
>    ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t3 -r now
>
> Now, replace the command line with something like
>    DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/gnome-system-monitor
>
> Then u'd be all set. However i think this is something a distribution 
> vendor should do, and not gnome by default
>
> Mark Finlay wrote:
>
> > I think that it would be really useful if metacity had a default
> > keybinding to bring up the gnome-system-monitor.
> >
> > When a program crashes most user's habitual behavior is to press
> > ALT+CTRL+DEL - at the moment they then realise that that does nothing
> > and go looking for a way to kill the app. It would be a lot more
> > intritive, IMHO, if ALT+CTRL+DEL ran the system-monitor.
> >
> >