Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 27th Mar 2009 01:04 UTC
Just now, both the server and desktop editions of the Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope beta have been released. It comes with a boatload of new features, some of which come courtesy of upstream. A new GNOME release, a new X.org release, a new notification system, they're all in there.
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RE[4]: What's next?
by PlatformAgnostic on Sun 29th Mar 2009 23:24
in reply to "RE[3]: What's next?"
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If you really want CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE functionality, why not do CTRL+ALT+F1 to get to a virtual console and then pkill the xserver from a different text-mode login? Does this not work anymore?
Usually, however sometimes when you kill the X server from a console it doesn't release the console it was running on and keeps that console in graphics mode, but will not re-use it the next time the X server is launched. Not really a big deal I suppose, but it's not exactly a clean shutdown either. Plus, some display managers don't handle that very well and won't always relaunch the X server the way they're supposed to.
Member since:2005-07-24
If you really want CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE functionality, why not do CTRL+ALT+F1 to get to a virtual console and then pkill the xserver from a different text-mode login? Does this not work anymore?
Well, that's not really CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE functionality. That's switching virtual terminals, logging in to a text console, and running a command line under sudo, after providing a suitable password, to kill the X server. What's the difference? Ask my nontechnical users. :-)
It's not needed often. But they know that if all else fails, they can CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE. This is an "improvement" that I will definitely be reverting.
Edited 2009-03-30 00:02 UTC
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2005-07-07
Times I clicked ctrl-alt-backspace because maybe nothing more than Xfce froze, but I didn't realize it was disabled so I came to the conclusion that the kernel locked and hard restarted: 4+