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ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown
Posted by ajt on Fri 3 Aug 2007 at 11:42
In /etc/inittab I tend to leave the default:
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
in place. As I use Windows XP at work, and use Ctrl-Alt-Delete all the time to lock the PC, I find the key combination causing a reboot on Linux highly annoying.
When running X I know it does different things there - also annoying but different.
I wonder if what setting people have their boxen do on a Ctrl-Alt-Delete - could this be a poll?
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
in place. As I use Windows XP at work, and use Ctrl-Alt-Delete all the time to lock the PC, I find the key combination causing a reboot on Linux highly annoying.
When running X I know it does different things there - also annoying but different.
I wonder if what setting people have their boxen do on a Ctrl-Alt-Delete - could this be a poll?
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Posted by Anonymous (212.24.xx.xx) on Fri 3 Aug 2007 at 16:31
hi,
i have some habits from my past ... and using ctrl-alt-del, followed by enter is one of them. i use icewm and it uses this sequence to lock the screen and that it did on old windows nt.
-jhr.
i have some habits from my past ... and using ctrl-alt-del, followed by enter is one of them. i use icewm and it uses this sequence to lock the screen and that it did on old windows nt.
-jhr.
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Posted by Steve (62.30.xx.xx) on Sat 4 Aug 2007 at 01:16
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For my home machines I've recently unset Ctrl+Alt+Del and Ctrl+Alt+Backspace ("nozap" under X.org) so that neither do anything.
Too often I'll hit them by mistake and it is annoying.
To be honest most of the machines I care about are remote and this just isn't an issue...
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Posted by Anonymous (81.62.xx.xx) on Sat 4 Aug 2007 at 10:47
Then get used to lock your Windows station using Win-L!
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Posted by Anonymous (81.230.xx.xx) on Mon 6 Aug 2007 at 12:01
I always comment that line out just in order to not to press ctrl-alt-del by mistake.
As we are using a kvm-switch and the screen blanker doesn't show if it's an windows or debian box, it is quite nice to know that the windows folks don't hit the combination by mistake.
As pointed out earlier most machines are remote-controlled though.
// John
As we are using a kvm-switch and the screen blanker doesn't show if it's an windows or debian box, it is quite nice to know that the windows folks don't hit the combination by mistake.
As pointed out earlier most machines are remote-controlled though.
// John
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