ctrl-alt-backspace aka don't zap via GUI, was: ...

[Paul Sladen]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> In that discusion it was declared that alt-sysreq-k was "better" because
> it's harder to hit

On some laptops [and non-i386 stuff], it's _extremely_ hard to hit a Sysreq
combination.  On special keyboards it may, or may not require
Shift-and-Alt-and-Fn and may, or may not be on the same key as PrntScrn.

I'd replace my earlier support of a five-second hold period, with instead
the consecutive double-hit used by SuSE as that patch (a) already exists,
(b) activates if somebody thinks "that didn't work, I'll try it again".

	-Paul
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Why do one side of a triangle when you can do all three.  Somewhere, GB.