REISUB versus ctrl-alt-del

[Tom H]

On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 1:43 AM, Thufir Hawat <hawat.thufir at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2011 23:28:24 -0500, Tom H wrote:
>>
>> The first is to kill X and it can be re-enabled through the GUI or the
>> CLI. It's probably been disabled in default X installs to prevent anyone
>> from using it by mistake.
>
> Well, my question remains:  REISUB is overkill.  Isn't there anything
> less drastic which works by default?

What's so difficult about re-enabling ctrl-alt-backspace?

Switching to another vt and kiling X orstopping/killing gdm is much
better than reisub.