My first DontZap use case while testing F11 beta
Rahul Sundaram
sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Tue Apr 14 00:21:53 UTC 2009
Arthur Pemberton wrote:
> I'm confused here. He was attempting to restart the entire machine,
> and instead restarted the X server, and this is considered a
> significant problem?
Yes because control alt del calls up the task manager in Windows in
recent versions and even initiating a reboot, you get a prompt for
confirmation and applications get time to save data.
> That said... when did Ctrl+Alt+Delete stop rebooting? I just tried it
> and was surprised to see a dialog box instead. I remember using that
> key combo way back since RH 7.3, I just rarely needed it.
I don't recall the specifics but it has been that way for a long time now.
Rahul
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