what the f*ck (pardon my french)

Valent Turkovic valent.turkovic at gmail.com
Mon Mar 12 14:56:38 UTC 2007


I tried sending CTRL-ALT-<CTRL-H> key sequence to the terminal a few
times and noting happened.

X restart happened to me a more than once, every time I tried to
pull-up Klipper menu (CTRL-ALT-V). But If I just do it now nothing
happens!?!

Do you have ANY idea what could that be?

On 3/7/07, Jacques B. <jjrboucher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/7/07, Valent Turkovic <valent.turkovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> > This didn't happen for some time, but today I managed to restart X in
> > the middle of my work!
> > I was pissed.
> > This should happen. Only key combination I know of for restarting X is
> > CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE.
> >
> > I use klipper in gnome as clipboard manager.
> >
> > I wanted to see a list of clipboard stack, and tried to press
> > CTRL-ALT-V which pops up klipper window from tray.
> >
> > I'm not sure which keys I pressed but some key near V. Maybe C or F.
> > But still when I not try CTRL-ALT-C or F my desktop stays working, X
> > doesn't reset.
> > Can somebody explain this to me?
> >
> > Thank you.
> > --
>
> CTRL-H  is the backspace keysequence in vi & bash shell.  I wonder if
> somehow you managed to send a CTRL-ALT-<CTRL-H> key sequence to the
> terminal.  I wasn't able to do it no matter what I seemd to try.
> Maybe it's possible somehow.  And the H is relatively close to the V.
>
> Jacques B.
>
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