Restarting Xserver from cli

[Leonard Chatagnier]

--- On Thu, 3/19/09, Christopher Rob JONES <christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch> wrote:

> From: Christopher Rob JONES <christopher.rob.jones at cern.ch>
> Subject: Re: Restarting Xserver from cli
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Date: Thursday, March 19, 2009, 2:44 AM
> Hi,
> 
> > Is there a documented case of this happening? Has any
> user ever
> > complained that this situation has caused him
> dataloss? Seriously? Go
> > dig up a mailing list archive, for any distro, that
> shows this
> > phenomenon happening.
> 
> Surely the fact this was discussed to death on the devel
> list means 
> someone somewhere most have done this, to trigger that
> discussion ?
> 
After reading most of this thread, I must
add my $.02.  I doubt very much that many,
if any, have lost data from using cntrl-alt-backspace whether or not they closed any open programs as I've don so many 
times never losing any data. Certainly, not enough data loss would have occurred to
warrant disabling the automatic feature,
cntrl-alt-backspace.  I agree that the newbie should be allowed to learn what he
needs to by suffering the consequences and
using the list to ask questions if afraid to explore. I also think that any normal
person, newbie or not, knows better to go
exploring with something he doesn't know the consequences of and if not let his data be lost to him. I think the developers, or whatever, erred in this case.  The shortcut is quick and easy way to restart X and should remain an automatic feature, IMNSHO.
So, why doesn't someone just summarize all
that has been said on this thread in bullet format and let it end there.  No, thanks, I decline the honor and didn't start the flame.  But it could go on for a lot longer.  FWIW, not much I guess. 
Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net