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

[Alan Coopersmith]

Jason Spiro wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at ...> writes:
> 
>> The X server has no way of displaying a message to users.   It could possibly
>> log a message to Xorg.0.log which some may see, but probably not many.   If
>> it's in a state in which the user needs to use Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to kill it,
>> then it's probably not going to be able to fork a new client and have the
>> window manager place it and map it.
> 
> Often it *can* fork a new client.  For example, users often use Ctrl+Alt+Bksp
> as a quick way to log out, and may wonder why it doesn't work in recent
> versions of Xorg.  This would give them a quick answer.

They should learn to use their window managers exit function then, so that
the session manager and programs have a chance to exit cleanly.

They should not learn to vt-switch and kill Xorg, so that their clients just
crash when they next try to read/write the socket to the X server.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering