Ctrl+Alt+Backspace for newbies.

[Ian Coetzee]

On 06/03/2010 08:00, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> On Sat, 6 Mar 2010 04:11:00 +0000 (UTC)
> Scott Beamer<geekboy at angrykeyboarder.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Smoot Carl-Mitchell spake thusly:
>>
>>      
>>> On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 18:33 +0000, Scott Beamer wrote:
>>>        
>>>> Which is harder on your system when X freezes?
>>>>
>>>> Ctrl+Alt+Backspace or Ctrl+Alt+Delete?
>>>>
>>>> You decide. Oh wait, you can't decide this is Ubuntu...
>>>>
>>>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/XorgCtrlAltBackspace
>>>>          
>>>        
>> My point is that I first thought it was just "broken" for quite some
>> time, (till someone brought up the fact that no, it' not broken.
>> Ubuntu devs just decided to cripple it for you).
>>
>> And I'm hardly a Linux newbie.  But those who are (or Ubuntu newbies
>> anyway).....
>>
>> In other words, this decision to disable it by default was a poor one.
>>
>> Just my $.02
>>
>>      
+1
> I fully agree with that but it isn't news.  In fact, I do believe
> Debian is doing so, too.  It seems that laptop keyboards make it a
> fairly common key combo to hit accidentally.
>
> Personally, I don't buy that.  I mean, how many times do you
> accidentally hit /three/ keys at the same time?
>    
Common by the looks of it. I myself wont be caught without <ctrl> + 
<alt> + <backspace> plainly because I play around (and break things) on 
a constant basis.

Thank you Scott for pointing it out, now I can troubleshoot my pc 
crashes better :)

Regards
> Cybe R. Wizard
>