Ctrl+Alt+Backspace for newbies.

[Scott Beamer]

Ian Coetzee spake thusly:

> On 06/03/2010 08:00, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
>> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 04:11:00 +0000 (UTC) Scott
>> Beamer<geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>  wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Smoot Carl-Mitchell spake thusly:
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 18:33 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote:
>>>>        
>>>>> Which is harder on your system when X freezes?
>>>>>
>>>>> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+Alt+Delete?
>>>>>
>>>>> You decide. Oh wait, you can't decide this is Ubuntu...
>>>>>
>>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgCtrlAltBackspace
>>>>>          
>>>>>          
>>> My point is that I first thought it was just "broken" for quite some
>>> time, (till someone brought up the fact that no, it' not broken.
>>> Ubuntu devs just decided to cripple it for you).
>>>
>>> And I'm hardly a Linux newbie.  But those who are (or Ubuntu newbies
>>> anyway).....
>>>
>>> In other words, this decision to disable it by default was a poor one.
>>>
>>> Just my $.02
>>>
>>>
> +1
>> I fully agree with that but it isn't news.  In fact, I do believe
>> Debian is doing so, too.  It seems that laptop keyboards make it a
>> fairly common key combo to hit accidentally.
>>
>> Personally, I don't buy that.  I mean, how many times do you
>> accidentally hit /three/ keys at the same time?
>>    
> Common by the looks of it. I myself wont be caught without <ctrl> +
> <alt> + <backspace> plainly because I play around (and break things) on
> a constant basis.
> 
> Thank you Scott for pointing it out, now I can troubleshoot my pc
> crashes better :)

You're welcome.  Ctrl+Alt+Delete is often major overkill....