On 2017-04-07 21:55, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2017-04-07 18:35, jdd wrote:
Le 07/04/2017 à 18:30, Dave Howorth a écrit :
But nobody suggested pressing ctrl-alt-backspace twice!
once or twice shouldn't change anything
Yes, it does.
Do it once, it is ignored, intentionally, to cover people pressing that combo once by mistake. It simply beeps. So you have to do it twice.
Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Backspace by mistake? Really? Only slightly more likely that Ctrl-Alt-Delete by mistake, I would think.
I'm not kidding :-) It is a documented change somewhere. Originally one time would kill the X server. They changed it to twice to avoid errors. Maybe it is similar to some other key combination used for programs. ctrl-alt-supr is very well known. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)