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From: ABCD <en.ABCD@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:00:05 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <h4cpar$pf2$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 32E23112-C9E5-4529-88A5-607B708A1F0E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk

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Stroller wrote:

> In Windows it (nowadays) takes you to a menu, which you can easily
> escape out of. That menu allows you to lock the screen session, bring
> up task manager, change your password or log out of the PC. I have no
> idea what it does on Linux, because Linux I use headless on servers.

You are thinking of Ctrl-Alt-Del; in Windows, Ctrl-Alt-Bksp does 
application-specific tasks, such as acting like Ctrl-Bksp or Alt-Bksp, or 
not doing anything at all.  Ctrl-Alt-Bksp killing the X server is a 
surprising difference for the average Windows user.

- -- 
ABCD
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-24 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-24  7:01 [gentoo-user] DontZap and Ctrl+Alt+Bs Igor Nemilentsev
2009-07-24  7:13 ` Helmut Jarausch
2009-07-24  8:44   ` Igor Nemilentsev
2009-07-24 20:05     ` Skippy
2009-07-24 20:35       ` [gentoo-user] " ABCD
2009-07-24 20:56       ` [gentoo-user] " Igor Nemilentsev
2009-07-28 11:23         ` Skippy
2009-07-28 11:26           ` Alan McKinnon
2009-07-28 12:35             ` Skippy
2009-07-28 14:11           ` Helmut Jarausch
2009-07-24  7:44 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-07-24  7:58   ` Dale
2009-07-24 11:16   ` Igor Nemilentsev
2009-07-24 11:28     ` Neil Bothwick
2009-07-24 11:45       ` Helmut Jarausch
2009-07-24 11:53       ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2009-07-24 12:32         ` Stroller
2009-07-24 17:00           ` ABCD [this message]
2009-07-24 13:08       ` Igor Nemilentsev

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