Restarting Xserver from cli

Derek Broughton derek at pointerstop.ca
Thu Mar 19 18:46:39 UTC 2009


Bart Silverstrim wrote:

> 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

There you go - and Win95 did fix it, which is the only thing I wasn't sure
about.
-- 
derek





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