On Sat, 2008-06-21 at 16:15 +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Isn't ctrl-alt-backspace meant to kill X, rather than shutdown?
(I could be wrong as I never use it.)
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kills the X server. It's not clear to me whether
there is any practical difference between doing that and hitting a "log
out" button. Presumably the latter could give the various apps time to
clean up, but I'm not sure if it actually does this.
poc