Mario, Yes. I would rather lose my work than switch to a virtual console and spend half an hour finding out which offending program to kill. I have tried several times to use C-A-F# to get back control of my gnome session, and have yet to succeed. I rarely, if ever, have completely unrecoverable work being preformed. OpenOffice saves my work every so often, I never do text editing in gedit unless i'm programing. In which case more likely than not I'm saving every minute or so. Pidgin, Firefox, if I lose my state its no big deal. Its a time trade off for me. Spend a potentially un-capped amount of time finding which program is glitching, possibly only to find that its the one program I have unsaved work in, or spend a known amount of time zapping X, and getting back to work. I choose the guarenteed capped amount of time over the uncapped amount of time in every case. I am often in situations where I cannot afford any unknown delays. Additionally, other times when I encounter gnome misbehaving, it isn't because its frozen or unresponsive. My NVidea gfx, core 2 quad desktop sometimes stops responding to the mouse, but still allows fully keyboard interaction. (I believe this is related to java). I simply alt-tab to my programs. Hit ctrl-s and save my document, and C-A-B into a new gnome session. The alternative is spending potentially several dozen minutes finding out which program is misbehaving. Is it annoying? Heck Yes. is it less annoying than either of rebooting my machine or trying to find which process is being an ass? Heck Yes. Message: 7 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2009 09:45:57 +0100 From: Mario Vukelic <<a href="mailto:mario.vukelic@dantian.org">mario.vukelic@dantian.org</a>> Subject: Re: Fwd: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no. To: u-d-d <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com</a>> Message-ID: <1234514757.12426.87.camel@<div id=":3p" class="ArwC7c ckChnd">chronic> Content-Type: text/plain On Thu, 2009-02-12 at 20:16 -0500, Mike Jones wrote: > I have absolutely no desire to C-A-F#, find the program that is giving > me fits, and then kill it in the hopes it fixes my issue. You rather lose your complete X session along with all data in open files than switching to a virtual console and killing one offending program? I gotta say I find that quite weird. </div>