ctrl-alt-backspace aka don't zap via GUI, was: Re: [Merge] lp:~albertomilone/gnome-control-center/randr-virtual into lp:~ubuntu-core-dev/gnome-control-center/ubuntu

[Scott Kitterman]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2009 16:48:44 -0500 Mackenzie Morgan <macoafi at gmail.com> 
wrote:
>On Fri, 2009-01-30 at 16:06 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>> So far I've tested this approach on one laptop and I find it "not 
working". 
>>  If we are going to hand this to end users as the solution to a locked 
X, I 
>> think it needs testing first.
>
>Did it simply hang X for you?  SysRq seems to be having problems in
>Jaunty on my laptop, but a friend of mine tried it on his (where SysRq
>works), and he said it hung X, rather than restarting it.
>
>As mentioned on replies to my blog and Bryce's, not all keyboards have
>SysRq keys, and not all SysRq keys are properly recognized as being
>SysRq keys.
>
In my case it didn't appear to affect X.  It seemed to cause the wifi light 
to blink, but no X restart.  Further troubleshooting is on my list, but 
pretty far down.

Scott K