Suggestion: make control-alt-delete bring up system monitor bydefault

SKLP dlist at ubuntuforums.org
Sat Jan 8 17:53:29 CST 2005


SKLP Wrote: 
> I don't think CTRL-ALT-DELETE should open the system monitor.
> IMO, i think it would be better if it (and the mac keycombination,
> converted to pc kbd ALT-SUPER-ESCAPE) opened a special quite small
> dialog that should contain a newbie-friendly list of applications
> running. By newbie-friendly i mean that the only processes that should
> be visible is things the user started (like graphical apps, firefox,
> OOo etc) and gnome-panel and nautilus (Preferably referred to as GNOME
> Panel and Nautilus). You should be able to right click them and
> Kill/Quit etc) as well as select them and click a Quit-button. There
> should also be a checkbox with the ability to "Show hidden/system
> processes". And of course you should be able to log out, start system
> monitor etc from it.
> 
> That's what i think.

EDIT: the ability to open up a terminal would be nice, too ;-)


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SKLP



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