Restarting Xserver from cli

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 22:15 +0100, Franz Waldmüller wrote:
> Every argument is valid, the newbie protection as well using C-A-B can 
> be quite useful.
> The developers decided the default setting, instead of arguing on the 
> mailing list it would be better to discuss an easy way on how to 
> activate "advanced" linux features. It won't be possible to design a 
> system which accommodates all needs.
> If we stick to the key combination example:
> As far as I am informed SYS-Rq keeys have been disabled since 8.10 as
> well. Good for multi user systems bad for a single user.

Speaking of magic key combinations. I had a colleague who ran an ISP
with FreeBSD boxes and Windows boxes many years ago.  They had consoles
in the data room and one night the night operator saw one of the boxes
had "blue screened".  So the operator hit C-A-D and rebooted the box.
Little did he know it was a FreeBSD system running a screensaver which
cycles between the abort screens of various operating systems including
Windows.  They stopped running that screensaver the next day.

Personally, I like the magic key combinations.  But I do see the utility
of turning them off by default.  I do not have a problem with this as
long as the feature can be enabled.
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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
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