REISUB versus ctrl-alt-del

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sun, Mar 06, 2011 at 03:09:34AM -0500, Tom H wrote:
> 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?

Precognition: you realize you needed to do that when X actually freezes,
when it's too late.

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

Provided that you can switch to another vt (KMS helps here a lot).

ssh is also a useful alternative (if you have a network and a second
computer).

Marius Gedminas
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