Ctrl-alt-backspace

[Marius Gedminas]

On Sat, Jan 07, 2012 at 05:35:47PM +0000, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> 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,

Did that myself.  Chatting on IRC, Ctrl+Alt+Left to look at some
piece of information, Ctrl+Alt+Right back to the IRC window and then hit
Ctrl+Backspace to erase last word without releasing Alt quite fast
enough.

Did that twice in a week.

> at least
> there's no chance of that happening with SysRq.

My can managed once.  Not the Alt+SysRq+K, but Alt+SysRq+something that
just prints a help message.  Don't ask me how.

Marius Gedminas
-- 
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