Ctrl-Alt-Backspace Problem

Jim Cornette redhat-jc at insight.rr.com
Sun Oct 26 18:07:14 UTC 2003


Mike A. Harris wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Jim Cornette wrote:
> 
> 
>>>It only started happening since I installed Fedora Core Test 2. 
>>>Previous to that I was using RH9 -- FCT2 was a clean install.
>>
>>What about making the start here (windoze key) log one out instead of 
>>killing X suddenly?
> 
> 
> Yeah, that would be absolutely wonderful reaching for the ALT 
> key, hitting Winkey and getting logged out.  There'd be a lot of 
> keyboards with that key ripped off of them shortly after.
> 
> Not quite as annoying as this annoying beep at login by default 
> though.
> 
> 

Well maybe it could be used for the activation or deactivation for the 
beep login then.

Where is this ctl-alt-backspace to log out coming from. Is it assumed 
that it is like win's version of ctl-alt-delete to log in?

Jim

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