Restarting Xserver from cli

[Bart Silverstrim]

David Curtis wrote:

> To me, removing C-A-B to limit this issue, is a sound decision.  

Not for people like me who have used Linux for many moons now, and when 
X locks up that is one of the first methods to regain some form of 
control...what's the alternative if you don't have another system to try 
SSH'ing into it and checking processes? I'm not trying to argue that 
things stay the way they are because of mere tradition, but only that it 
was a way to recover from an error, and the odds of "accidentally" 
hitting it are slim. In theory someone only needs to be bitten once by 
some ass on an IRC channel to know not to do that again (and get a 
lesson on trusting strange people on faceless networks, probably).

There comes a point where people need to stop protecting everything with 
bubble wrap and let mistakes happen; it's how people learn. As long as 
the problem isn't something "unreasonable" (accidentally hitting C-A-B? 
What are the odds?)...and who would be experimenting on their computer 
while working on their grand master thesis due the next day without a 
backup? Someone who deserves a reboot (or restart of X)?

Just my opinion which of course is as valuable as the electrons burned 
reading this...

-Bart