[oclug] Refreshing X

[Dave Edwards]

On Monday 04 March 2002 01:01 pm, JP wrote:
> > Are you sure you're hitting Control-Alt-Backspace here?  That key
> > sequence shouldn't either halt your system or power it back up.  All
> > it should do is stop X (and possibly cause init to restart X, if your
> > machine is set up to directly boot into X)
>
> 100 % sure.  "CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE" halt my system and another "CTRL-ALT-
> BACKSPACE" power it back up ! It's a mandrake 8.1 box !
>
> Does anyone have the same problem with mandrake 8.1 ???
> Can it be related to my Motherboard ???

I don't know about that.  But I'm running MDK-8.1 and have run MDK at 
home since 7.0.  CTRL-ALT-BACKSPACE does not default to 'shutdown -r now' 
on Mandrake systems; on mine it has always killed X.

Cheers, 
Dave.
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