Idea: When users press Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, tell them the new way to kill Xorg

[Peter Hutterer]

On Fri, Dec 04, 2009 at 10:45:21AM +0000, Jason Spiro wrote:
> Now that Ctrl+Alt+Bksp no longer defaults to killing Xorg, some people I've
> spoken with don't know how to manually kill Xorg.  An idea:  It would be helpful
> if, when you pressed Ctrl+Alt+Bksp, Xorg showed a message onscreen telling
> users:  "To terminate Xorg, press Ctrl+Alt+F1, then log in as 'root', then type
> the following command:  /usr/bin/killall -v -9 X"
> 
> I don't know how you could show the message.  Maybe you could use xmessage(1). 
> It might not always work, but when it would work, it would be helpful.
> 
> What do you think of my idea?

http://ryanler.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/controlaltbackspace-shortcut-does-not-restart-the-x-server-in-fedora-11/

Cheers,
  Peter