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

[Dylan McCall]

> I've tested it here (in response to this discussion) and it "works" in that
> it reliably kills X and gdm respawns it automatically, but it also mangles
> my text VTs.
> 
> Timo says this is a bug in the intel drm driver.  That's fair; but it
> doesn't invalidate the point that using SysReq+K on my system gives inferior
> results compared with Ctrl+Alt+BkSp in the general case.

Which is exactly why, for those who care about text VTs and killing X,
there is a completely viable option to re-enable zapping. Any polls on
this topic will be biased since the people currently affected by the
change are running an in-development version of Ubuntu and therefore are
going to have more lockups than the common user and have an
understanding of what Ctrl+Alt+Backspace actually does other than "break
the program".

-Dylan McCall
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