Re: gnome-session dialog on crack

[Gediminas Paulauskas <menesis delfi lt>]

Ross Burton wrote:
> > It would be more convenient to press Ctrl+Alt+Del and get a dialog with 
> > six buttons:
>
> [snip]
>
> The problem I see with this is that I sometimes hit control-alt-delete
> as my X server/GTK has crashed and I need to kill X.
>
> If hitting control-alt-delete brings up a dialog which needs the
> mouse/keyboard/gtk etc to be working fine, and they don't, bad things
> will happen.
>
> Control-alt-delete is Kill, and I never really understood why Windows
> overloaded it to include Log Off, Task Manager etc.

This does not need to be that particular key sequence (which is 
impossible to hit with one hand if you have right alt = altgr). I just 
wanted to say that there is some key combination with which you can pop 
up a dialog and shutdown quickly.

When I leave my desk, I just press ctrl+alt+del and enter -- that's all, 
my workstation is locked.

You kill your X server with ctr+alt+backspace, that's another key 
combination and does different thing.

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Gediminas