Restarting Xserver from cli

Bart Silverstrim bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Thu Mar 19 02:42:23 UTC 2009



Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 22:21 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> You are describing a situation in which the user decides to
>> press Ctrl-Alt-Delete, which is a key combination for an unrelated
>> operating system, and actually misses one of the three keys. He then
>> lands on one specific key nearby.
> 
> Ignoring for now the fact that practically 100% of Ubutu newbies will
> come from Windows, I forgot to mention (and NoOp's post in another
> subthread reminded me of this):
> 
> Did you ever try C-A-D in Ubuntu? Go ahead. It brings up the logout
> dialog.
> 
> So, we have the perfectly benign "official" shortcut C-A-D which gives
> you a dialog and options, and a tiny distance away the big honking kill
> switch C-A-B. Good usability design? I don't think so.

Hit C-A-D. On this system...a logout prompt.

On the one at work...nothing appeared.

Another example of outstanding usability? Or did someone miss consistent 
behavior in their bid to tell me I know nothing of the concept of usability?




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