Restarting Xserver from cli

Bart Silverstrim bsilver at chrononomicon.com
Thu Mar 19 13:38:59 UTC 2009


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 21:27 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> It has only recently
>>> stopped doing things so drastic on Windows.
>> Recently? IIRC it was there in Win 2000 and probably NT before that. OK,
>> once could argue that XP was the first "NT for the masses", but when was
>> that released, 2002?
> 
> It's _never_ rebooted the system on Win2000 or NT.  NT used ctrl-alt-delete
> to invoke the login screen, and called it a feature.  You can certainly
> choose to reboot once it responds to ctrl-alt-delete, but it's not the
> Three-Finger Salute.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control-Alt-Delete






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