[wplug] howto signoff a user

Bill Moran wmoran at potentialtech.com
Tue Nov 11 22:24:55 EST 2003


James O'Kane wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jonathan S. Billings wrote:
> 
>>If you are standing at the console, and want to kill the current user's 
>>X session, there's always the X three fingered salute:  
>>Control-Alt-Backspace.  That'll kill the current X session.
> 
> I've recently found a motherboard where Control-Alt-Backspace does a power 
> off of the power supply. Unfortunately it's in the only computer I 
> run X on. Stupid anti-linux motherboard. I don't remember the maker at the 
> moment, but it's a Duron CPU[1].

I have one of those as well and it's driving me nuts because I can't
get the X config right, and I keep ctl-alt-backspace to exit X (because
neither keyboard nor mouse will work) and I get the power off.

I mean, who was the genious who came up with that?

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technologies
http://www.potentialtech.com




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