Ctrl-alt-backspace

[Avi Greenbury]

Colin Law wrote:
> On 7 January 2012 17:22, Avi Greenbury <lists at avi.co> wrote:
> >
> > ctrl+alt+sysrq+k
> >
> > Will kill anything on your current TTY which, generally, is X11. And
> > when X11 is killed like that, it starts itself again.
> 
> The problem I find with that is that you need a good aim with the nose
> to hit the K key.

Yeah, this is a common complaint. Personally, though, I've not yet
found a keyboard where the K is more than a handspan from SysRq. In
fact, on this (admittedly laptop) keyboard the ctrl+alt+k bit is quite
doable on the left hand.

Hilariously, one of the alleged reasons for removing ctrl-alt-backspace
was that users were somehow accidentally triggering it, at least
there's no chance of that happening with SysRq.

-- 
Avi