[wplug] howto signoff a user

Devin Lee Drew dld at pobox.com
Wed Nov 12 00:49:57 EST 2003


Bill Moran wrote:

> 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?


A bios or jumper setting should fix this. Check the mobo manual.




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