Restarting Xserver from cli

[David Curtis]

On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 22:14:49 +0200
Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:

> > How have you not heard? C-A-B is being disabled to prevent newbies
> > exploring restarting their X servers. There was quite a discussion in
> > ubuntu-devel-discuss.
> 
> Are there any documented cases where a newbie has been bitten by this.
> 

Yes, I was just on IRC #ubuntu when someone ask how to restart alsa/pulseaudio. Some idiot responded 'hit ctrl-alt-bksp' and boom, newb at xxx.xxx.xx.xx. has quit (client terminated). 

Laughable, yes. But if the questioner had lost data they would have been furious.

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David Curtis <dcurtis at uniserve.com>