Re: Shutting X down.

[Liam Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:56:35PM -0500, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> Owen says Xscreensaver may contain code that does this. Maybe an
> XFree86 extension.  You could have a dialog box "please hit
> Ctrl-Alt-Backspace now" ;-)
That key combination is XFree86-specific -- it won't in general
work on other servers (although it might).

E.g. Sun's server shuts down with L1-ctrl-DEL as I recall.

So the session management is better.  But, there is no way to make
this work on all servers.

Also, as has been noted, shtting down an X server when someone is
(for example) in the middle of sending email or playing Quake :-),
will make you unpopular.

Lee

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