Restarting Xserver from cli

[Derek Broughton]

Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> Mario Vukelic wrote:

>> In reality, Ctrl+Alt+Bspc always was a usability nightmare. If Windows
>> had something like this it would be roasted over an open fire, and
>> rightly so.
> 
> That's BS. Windows was full of usability nightmares. Never hurt sales
> enough to matter.

In fact (now, just settle down youngsters, the old guy's going to tell a
story...) Windows had _exactly_ this usability nightmare.  In pre-Windows
95 days, ctrl-alt-delete rebooted the system.  I'm old enough to not
remember whether Win95 actually fixed that.  But it had become such a joke
that Windows NT introduced the concept of Ctrl-Alt-Delete to login - and
called it a feature!  Actually, they had a point, because it ensured that
you weren't actually trying to login to some trojan just waiting to email
your id/password somewhere, but it took a pretty bright MS engineer to turn
that from a minus to a plus.
-- 
derek